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Building Community

How to Create a Math Super Team

The super teachers at Hale Jr High in Tulsa each use their unique skills to create differentiated learning experiences for every student.
Why Schools Need to Change

Realignment and Relevance: CTE Programs and Generation Z

A high school student suggests CTE can become more relevant to his generation by connecting career education with college prep.
New Designs for School

Transforming High School by Challenging Students to Solve Real Problems

Vista High School students describe their experience with Challenge-Based Learning, striving to find solutions in their daily lives.
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.
Reimagining Assessment

Co-Design as a Lever for Increasing Student Agency: Assessment for Learning in New Hampshire

This memo highlights the work of the New Hampshire Learning Initiative (NHLI), a member of the Assessment for Learning Project (ALP) network. The memo describes their efforts to support educators across the state to actively engage students as partners in co-designing learning goals and assessment strategies, showcasing how these efforts have enriched the experiences of teachers and students in two districts.

Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), November 2018
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.