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Enabling Change

Family Engagement: The Gold Standard for Achievement

The Family and Community Engagement Network at Vista Unified School District is building authentic relationships with students and families in a servant leadership approach.
Building Community

Building on Success: Scaling Personalized Learning Across a Network

​After one school in its network designed a successful personalized learning model, Distinctive Schools had to decide how network schools might adopt it.
New Designs for School

Transforming High School by Challenging Students to Take Action Based on Their Learning

A Vista HS student takes action on a topic she discovered during her learning, realizing the power of student voice to improve her own learning experiences.
Why Schools Need to Change

Webinar: Development and Use of a Robust Portrait of a Graduate

This December 2018 webinar hosted by Jenny Curtin of the Barr Foundation focused on the role of a portrait of a graduate in high school design efforts. It featured local stories from Jalen Epps, recent graduate of Duet and Matt Brunell, Co-Executive Director of the Springfield Empowerment Zone and national perspectives from Andy Calkins, Director of Next Generation Learning Challenges and Cynthia Leck, Partner at Transcend.

Recording (vimeo)

Barr Foundation Blog Post - includes archives, downloadable slides, and key resources

New Designs for School

5 Steps to Teaching Students a Problem-Solving Routine

Students can use the 5 steps in this simple routine to solve problems across the curriculum and throughout their lives.
New Designs for School

Mastering Process in Competency-Based Learning

One possible drawback to competency-based learning is an over-emphasis on the end product. What is it we really want students to master?
Why Schools Need to Change

Ready for the Future of Education with Artificial Intelligence?

Educators who want to engage, inspire, and prepare their students for the future should pay attention to the ways AI is reshaping the world.
New Designs for School

Student Travelers Experience the World to Know Themselves

A Colorado public K-12 school's experiential learning program provides all learners with transformative travel experiences.
Reimagining Assessment

The Assessment for Learning Project is trying to improve assessment's reputation

Hechinger Report, January 2019
Enabling Change

Setting the Vision for Creating a Career Superhighway

The first step in envisioning a career superhighway in Vista, CA: level-set multiple perspectives with a landscape scan and compelling statistics.