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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.
New Designs for School

Schools Should Be Cathedrals of Learning

When we focus on instruction and neglect the physical environment of school and classroom design, we leave 25 percent of learning progress untapped.
Designing for Equity

A Force (for Student Success) to Be Reckoned With

YouthForce NOLA is working to prepare low-income students and students of color for today's careers as well as their white, affluent peers are.
New Designs for School

Three Essential Ingredients for a Student-Centered Classroom

When these 3 ingredients are present in a truly student-centered lesson, students are most likely to learn both academic content and productive habits of mind.
Designing for Equity

Designing with Diverse Communities: Recommended Readings & Resources

An intentional school design process requires stakeholder input and ownership, which often starts with a community-based research process. This process asks school designers to partake in personal, reflective identity work before (and while) collaborating with various stakeholders, such as community leaders, parents, and students themselves. This set of resources, tools, and readings—some practical and some theory-based—can help designers as they begin to think about and engage in school design.

Springpoint Schools
Why Schools Need to Change

How Learning Happens

This video series explores how educators can guide all students, regardless of their developmental starting points, to become productive and engaged learners. Featuring Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of Learning Policy Institute, and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, the videos pair research insights with a variety of illustrative strategies from schools, all grounded in the science of human learning and development.

Edutopia
Building Community

A Joining of Hands: Looking Back at 2018, a Year of Collaboration and Connection

Preparing students for success in a changing world can't be done in isolation. Let’s celebrate the connections and collaboration of next gen learning.