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Reimagining Assessment

Building Writing Skills, Fostering Agency: The National Writing Project’s Student Using Sources Tool

Teachers helped the National Writing Project develop and test a peer-review tool designed to help students improve their evidence-based arguments in writing.
Professional Learning

Educator-to-Educator Learning: The Transforming Learning Collaborative

TLC professional learning for educators who are redesigning learning offers authentic real-world contexts, experiential learning, collaboration, and mentoring.
New Designs for School

Structure Helps Promote Student Agency

Schools using flex time must balance between fostering autonomy in students while still holding them accountable for ambitious learning targets.
New Designs for School

Don't Force Group Work, Facilitate Experiential Learning

Group work can be frustrating, divisive & unsuccessful. Experiential learning principles frame student groups to be engaging, meaningful & effective.
Designing for Equity

Diversity, Equity, and Next Gen Learning

Next gen learning needs to happen where young people face the greatest barriers to success, where schools may be part of the problem as well as the solution.
Designing for Equity

Universal Design for Learning: Because One Size Fits None

The UDL Guidelines are a valuable framework for next gen educators to improve teaching and learning for all people by designing at the margins.
New Designs for School

Students Are People Too

Teachers may use 4 pedagogical strategies to meet the needs of students who are the chronically absent, have a learning disability, or are easily bored.
New Designs for School

Losing Control. Gaining Community. Creating a Culture of Learning.

Two strategies for building a classroom culture for deep learning are zooming in on one's own behaviors and zooming out on the broader school environment.
Designing for Equity

Meet the Winners of the First Boston Public Schools’ Innovation Contest

Higginson Elementary School in Boston uses a tech-enabled project-based learning curriculum to improve equitable access, esp. for students with disabilities.
New Designs for School

Transforming High School by Supporting Student Self-Discovery

Two Vista High School students describe how the process of self-discovery within Challenge-Based Learning helps them progress as learners.