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New Designs for School

Design Your Classroom for Changemaking

3 tips to best set up your classroom for meaningful innovation opportunities, for students to design solutions to make the world a better place.
New Designs for School

Deep Community Partnerships Lead to Authentic Project-Based Learning at OUSD

How to create authentic PBL? In Oakland Unified, community partners and teachers are working together from the very beginning to design projects.
Building Community

Live the Inclusion Dream: Two Pitfalls to Avoid in Co-Teaching

Co-teaching in an inclusion classroom has its rewards for special educators and general ed teachers alike, but only if co-teachers avoid these two pitfalls.
New Designs for School

The New "I Do, We Do, You Do"

"I Do, We Do, You Do" instruction balances 3 kinds of learning but here's how it also can give students equal opportunity to participate and master the content.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Conversation about Education as an Ecosystem

​Join this exploration of the important role of context and environment in school and learning, looking at the metaphors we use to describe K-12 education.
Professional Learning

A Meaningful Education Begins with the Relationship

How one school network is using new teacher training and ongoing PD to transform relationships among staff and with students.
Professional Learning

Creativity's Power to Transform the Learning Experience for Students and Teachers

2 Baltimore teachers reflect on a summer PD of arts-integrated math and literacy, filled with creativity, hands-on experience, self-expression, connection.
Designing for Equity

A Tale of Two (English Language) Learner-Centered Schools

Two schools use next gen learning design principles to enhance the learning experience of English Language Learners and all their students.
Why Schools Need to Change

Rethinking Wayfinding

How can schools prepare youth for the future? Focus on wayfinding, or "match-finding," a matter of experience more than long-term planning.
Why Schools Need to Change

How Schools Will Win the Education Revolution

In his new book THRIVE, author Grant Lichtman offers 3 pathways for schools to make themselves irresistible, enabling them to embrace change and growth.