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New Designs for School

How Self-Pacing Improves Students’ Academic Achievement and Self-Confidence

When we as educators require all students to work at a predetermined pace irrespective of their needs, we decide to value speed over mastery.
New Designs for School

Project Based Learning and ADHD

One challenge facing educators moving to PBL is providing support to learners who require more individualized instructor attention, such as students with ADHD.
New Designs for School

Multidisciplinary Projects at Walt Clark Middle School

Math, language arts, teamwork, problem-solving, creative thinking—all in one project.​ The multi-disciplinary projects are one way to personalize learning.
Designing for Equity

The Nature Gap and School Redesign at Boston Public Schools

​Intrepid Academy at Hale ​aims to change the ‘nature gap’ that today's urban and low-income students experience​, and it's showing promise.
Designing for Equity

Who You Know: Building Students’ Social Capital

Understand why social capital is an essential part of young people’s preparation for life ​and how schools can support students in acquiring it.
Designing for Equity

Equipping All Students to Be Successful, Responsible, Informed Citizens

Mary Chan’s insights into the next gen learning model through firsthand experience as a high school science teacher and UCLA college pathway coach at Da Vinci X.
New Designs for School

What Does Deeper Learning Sound Like?

As Assessment for Learning Project educators rethink assessment, they are bumping up against some deeply ingrained assumptions about what learning really is.
Professional Learning

Innovative Back to School Professional Development

If you're trying to deliver a 21st century school, your teacher training must reflect the principles of 21st century learning too.
Reimagining Assessment

Creating Space

If we want good things to happen in K-12 education, we have to create space for them. And creating space isn’t easy.
Reimagining Assessment

How Does a Feedback Loop Encourage a Culture of Learning Conversation in the Classroom?

​​Engaging teachers in honest & meaningful feedback loops with one another is one way Henry County Schools models learning conversations for students.​