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Enabling Change

Aligning Education Policy with the Science of Learning and Development

This report analyzes recent learning sciences research and provides nine recommendations to address a critical need: how can education policy support and align with the science of learning and development? Research on how students learn and develop is providing teachers, practitioners, and policymakers with insights on how to help students learn and grow academically and develop holistically to achieve successful outcomes in their education and in life.

Aurora Institute
New Designs for School

Slowing Down Student Research to Encourage Critical Thinking

​Is the ease and speed of digital technology at odds with the critical thinking students need to complete a research paper?​
Professional Learning

It’s Never Too Late to Innovate

Modern Classroom Project’s new, flexible online course for teacher professional development supports classroom transformation mid-year. Learn a few tips!
Professional Learning

In the Driver’s Seat: Online Professional Learning Design Features in Action

This resource provides a research-based framework of six quality drivers for online teacher learning. It draws upon a literature review of adult learning and online professional learning for educators. It includes a summary of the framework, vignettes, a deep dive report into the research literature, and an assessment tool that supports school and district leaders in platform evaluation and evidence-gathering.

The Learning Accelerator, in partnership with EdSurge
Why Schools Need to Change

Experiential Learning about Race

​An educator from Oakland Unified School District shares why he is passionate about experiential learning that is both rigorously intellectual and profoundly moving, especially when students learn about race and racism​.​
Why Schools Need to Change

Finding Our Why: Voices of Change-Makers

​​The "whys" that inspired participants in a recent School Design Institute to spend their weekend living the change they want to see in education.​
Reimagining Assessment

Embedding Assessment in Hands-On Learning: What We Learned from Students and Teachers from Boston to Bangalore

With more emphasis on authentic learning in classrooms, how can educators assess process skills and create assessments that put learners in the driver's seat?
Building Community

Teachers as the Drivers of Change

When we increase student voice and choice in learning, we must also increase teacher voice and choice in curriculum, instruction, school operations, and PD.
New Designs for School

The Lecture-Less Classroom

Bell-to-bell instruction can be stressful for students and actually limit learning. Here's one strategy to reduce stress and help students be more productive.
Building Community

A Community Approach to Transform Your School: Apply for the Innovative Schools Learning Excursion

Mass.-based teams of educators, parents, students, community partners are invited to visit an innovative district in California. Apply by Jan. 24.