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Building Community

Radical Connectivity: A Potential Big Win for Educators from COVID-19

Nearly overnight, the pandemic radically disrupted education's traditional pathways of human interaction. Three principles, evolving in real time, will change how education operates in a post-COVID-19 world.
Enabling Change

When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools

​The districts in NGLC's change management project have transitioned to home-based learning with rapid design of new systems and communication, propelled by their professional cultures of distributed leadership.​
Professional Learning

Learning to Love Professional Development in the Time of COVID

Boston Public Schools is working with local industry partners to create a virtual externship program for district educators this summer.
Reimagining Assessment

Assessment Is for Families

For learning from home to succeed, parents need creative ways to recognize and track small achievements and shifts in thinking and celebrate their own supporting role​​.
Designing for Equity

Designing for Race Equity: Now Is the Time

School teams eager to make an equity-centered response to the impacts of the pandemic can start with the equityXdesign framework; school examples included.
Reimagining Assessment

When the "Iceberg Problem Really Hits Hard:" NOLA Educators Talk Policy, COVID, and Learning Loss

Learning loss and unfinished learning is common in middle school and especially problematic in math. And that was a big deal before COVID.
Why Schools Need to Change

Reclaiming Education through Community Partnerships

A high schooler's perspective on why going back to normal, to abandon what COVID-19 has revealed, will be to fail. We must transform and come back stronger.
Building Community

Hiring Talent to Reimagine School when the Future Is Unknown

Advice for hiring new school staff virtually, taking advantage of new opportunities and doubling down on what's most important.
New Designs for School

The Equity Imperative: Project-Based Distance Learning

Find out how PBL went virtual at Oakland High School: when the world shut down, students' authentic project on safe transportation continued, to great success!
New Designs for School

My Secret Weapon for Distance Learning: Accountable, Self-Paced, Mastery-Based Instruction

These 4 strategies for measuring—and increasing—student engagement during distance learning build on accountable, self-paced, mastery-based learning experiences.