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Professional Learning

Distinctive Schools Educators Learning, Designing, and Leading Together

Distinctive Schools teachers join design teams to provide expertise and critical feedback to strengthen solutions to shared problems of practice.
New Designs for School

Three Ways Music Educators Foster Learning for Life

Music educators on NAfME's Innovations Council recommend these three practices to promote students' creativity and whole human development.
Professional Learning

Shining a Light on Next Gen Learning at iNACOL

Explore next gen learning with the NGLC community at the iNACOL Symposium in Palm Springs. See you there!
New Designs for School

Designing for Social Emotional Learning

Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, DC promotes social-emotional learning by helping students develop self-awareness and self-regulation skills.
New Designs for School

Slowing Down Student Research to Encourage Critical Thinking

​Is the ease and speed of digital technology at odds with the critical thinking students need to complete a research paper?​
Professional Learning

It’s Never Too Late to Innovate

Modern Classroom Project’s new, flexible online course for teacher professional development supports classroom transformation mid-year. Learn a few tips!
Why Schools Need to Change

Experiential Learning about Race

​An educator from Oakland Unified School District shares why he is passionate about experiential learning that is both rigorously intellectual and profoundly moving, especially when students learn about race and racism​.​
Why Schools Need to Change

Finding Our Why: Voices of Change-Makers

​​The "whys" that inspired participants in a recent School Design Institute to spend their weekend living the change they want to see in education.​
Reimagining Assessment

Embedding Assessment in Hands-On Learning: What We Learned from Students and Teachers from Boston to Bangalore

With more emphasis on authentic learning in classrooms, how can educators assess process skills and create assessments that put learners in the driver's seat?
Building Community

Teachers as the Drivers of Change

When we increase student voice and choice in learning, we must also increase teacher voice and choice in curriculum, instruction, school operations, and PD.