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Enabling Change

Next Gen Change: Stories from Three Educators

Three classroom educators at a California high school describe how they applied a schoolwide goal to personalize learning to their own teaching this past year.
Designing for Equity

Making for Social Justice at Brighton High School

A Boston Turnaround School wins the Autodesk Make It Real competition, providing students with a social justice-oriented maker education.
New Designs for School

Student Collaboration that Counts

As educators, we know that collaboration is important. How do we get students to see that, too?
Why Schools Need to Change

Oakland's Graduate Profile: A Spotlight on What Matters Most

A graduate profile can help build coherence for a school district by focusing instruction and learning on what truly matters. To create its graduate profile, Oakland Unified listened to students, alumni, and teachers and is now aligning resources toward the vision it set.
New Designs for School

What New Research Can Teach Schools Looking to Put Personalized Learning into Practice

A Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative study of personalized learning in Chicago highlights 4 common practices to successfully implement personalized learning.
Reimagining Assessment

Making Learning Public: Two Practices for Engaging and Empowering All Students

With community showcases of learning and personalized sharing in student-led conferences, Two Rivers students are deeply engaged, leading their own education.
Why Schools Need to Change

Shifting to Skill-Focused Graduation Requirements

Students at the Workshop School in the School District of Philadelphia will earn credits and grades in Creative Know How, Habits of Success and Wayfinding.
Technology Tools

Teachers Reflect on Using Technology in Personalized Learning

Educators new to personalized learning models like Teach to One: Math may be surprised by the prominent role of teachers and the varied learning modalities.
Reimagining Assessment

How Can Students and Teachers Co-Design Learning?

When teachers design lessons with students, it pushes student learning and deepens teacher understanding of their students and the learning process.
Professional Learning

The Modern Classrooms Project: A Teacher-Driven PD Model That Works

When it comes to redesigning learning, what kind of professional development works best for teachers? Looking to teachers themselves is a good bet.