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Why Schools Need to Change

Teaching Community and Knowing Students

A recent experience reminds the author of the power of feeling known by someone and the centrality of community and relationship building for schools.
New Designs for School

Developing Wayfinders with Learning Plans

Two elementary school teachers use learning plans to help students develop wayfinding skills like goal-setting and exercising agency.
Why Schools Need to Change

'How Do We Steer This Thing?' The Missing Element in Next Generation Learning

The concept of "cornerstone careers" may help many more school communities transform learning to address the lack of economic mobility for low-income youth.
Reimagining Assessment

How’s Discipline at Your School? Don’t Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

The results of a national study on perceptions of school discipline fairness can help start conversations about discipline policy and leading by listening.
Reimagining Assessment

Culturally Responsive Assessment Practices through Nā Hopena Aʻo (HĀ)

The Hawai'i DOE Office of Hawaiian Education is piloting a proficiency-based assessment model that is culturally responsive and place-based.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Note to School Districts: Fish, Cut Bait, or Swim to Shore

School districts are organized as bureaucracies that often get in the way of, rather than provide meaningful support for, teaching and learning.
New Designs for School

MyWays in LiFT brings project-based learning to the next level

Redefine student success for your school community with this flexible project-based learning platform.
New Designs for School

Transforming High School by Engaging Student Voice: Co-Creating Learning

Vista High School educators listened to students explain how they see their voices impacting their learning within a co-created project.
New Designs for School

The Many-Teacher Classroom

As educators, we want to foster collaborative learning experiences. How can we set up classrooms in which they authentically occur?
Why Schools Need to Change

Engagement, Empathy, and Empowerment for Service

Learners develop real-world skills and global mindsets through service projects at Sunset Middle School in Longmont, CO.