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Designing for Equity

How Thrive Public Schools Supports Special Education Students

As a school of bridge builders, Thrive Public Schools is building bridges between typical and developmentally diverse thinkers.
Why Schools Need to Change

Using Design Thinking to Set the Vision for a Career Superhighway

Envisioning a career superhighway in Vista, CA through empathy interviews with students.
New Designs for School

Leveraging the Power of Data to Understand Students: Obstacles and Ideas to Support Student-Centered School Design

Stronger data practices can help leaders better utilize data as a way to deeply understand the students they serve.
Building Community

Educator-to-Educator Mentoring to Support Real-World Learning Redesign

Transforming Learning Incubator school redesign teams visited Pittsburgh and San Diego for best practice presentations, mentoring, and design sessions.
Reimagining Assessment

3 Powerful Examples of School Districts Using Capstones and Portfolios

Colorado's graduation guidelines offer options including performance-based demonstrations of college and career readiness such as portfolios and capstoness.
New Designs for School

Boston’s Innovative Approach to Reconnecting High School Dropouts

The district is reconnecting high school dropouts by focusing on life goals, academic gaps, social-emotional challenges, and personal commitments.
Designing for Equity

Street Data: A New Grammar for Educational Equity

Whose voices are included, tokenized, and silenced as we address equity in our schools? Experiment with the strategic use of "street data" to be more inclusive.
Building Community

Why (and How) I Teach This Way: An Educator Talks about Project-Based Learning

An educator at San Diego's High Tech High shares the why's and how's of project-based learning in his Humanities classroom.
Technology Tools

Different Paths to the Same Goal: College and Career Readiness

Two studies of Teach to One: Math highlight the tension between grade-level-based accountability and more personalized math instruction.
New Designs for School

Transforming High School by Engaging Students in Co-Creating Powerful and Purposeful Learning Experiences

As teachers at Vista HS co-create learning experiences with students, students remind them they need to feel connected to their teacher in order to learn.