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Designing for Equity

Rebuilding for Equity, Safety, Wellness, and Learning

This toolkit provides schools reopening during COVID-19 with ideas for creating physical spaces that support social distancing and other health requirements.
New Designs for School

The Elementary Years: Prime Time for Blended Learning

A 4th grade teaching team adopts blended learning to better meet the needs of their learners, offering classroom strategies for elementary educators.
Designing for Equity

Schools as Communities of Care

Schools that operate as communities of care develop a sense of safety, belonging, joy, and hope in all their students, the foundation to truly thrive.
New Designs for School

Tuning in: The Arts’ Crucial Role in Remote Learning

Arts integration expands the limits of remote learning and provides the experiences students need to fully develop, with or without internet access.
Why Schools Need to Change

Crisis as Crucible: What Do We Really Need to Know?

​A crisis has a way of making clear what is essential and what is superfluous. What skills are essential, especially for students who face racial and socioeconomic discrimination?
Reimagining Assessment

Post-COVID-19: Will Students Return to Normal or Be Leaders in Educational Change?

Electronic portfolios not only document work ready skills for students in LA Unified's CTE-LinkedLearning pathways but also celebrate their accomplishments.
New Designs for School

Education Equity in the Age of COVID

Three ways to create more entry points to learning online during the pandemic and close learning gaps, using strategies learned from adopting blended learning in the classroom.
New Designs for School

Map Academy: Designed for Disruption

“Designing for the margins” prepared Map Academy in Plymouth, Massachusetts to meet challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Enabling Change

Reimagining School Requires Recommitting to Our Core Values

Transitioning to next school year, Distinctive Schools are moving from emergency responses to planning relationship-based communities of care, remote or not.
Reimagining Assessment

The Power of Collaborative Teacher Learning

Three takeaways about ecosystems for learning, student and teacher agency in formative assessment, and the power of community and collaboration.