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Enabling Change

School and District Bureaucracy Has Failed Us All. What Are Some Alternatives?

Creating coherence, equity, and powerful learning in our existing school district bureaucracies and hierarchies is a challenge. But there is a way forward.
Enabling Change

Is Next Gen Learning a Place Where the Political Sides Can Meet?

A red-state/blue-state conversation: ​Can education innovation and next gen learning bring people across the political spectrum together for the benefit of students?
Designing for Equity

How to Make Senior Capstones Truly Anti-Racist

Alternative assessments are not inherently equitable without concerted effort.
Why Schools Need to Change

Where Does Agency Come From?

What does it really mean to know how to shape your life? To shape the world? 5 key questions examine ways to build agency with young people.
New Designs for School

Create a Learning Recovery Plan for Your Returning Students

Unfinished learning resulting from the pandemic exacerbated the decades-old challenge of summer learning loss. A plan for learning recovery should include these 6 components.
Enabling Change

This Epiphany Changed These Schools and Districts and the Lives of the Families They Serve. It Could Do the Same for You.

Is your school living your graduate profile among students and adults? The stories of these schools’ response to COVID vividly demonstrate why you should.
Reimagining Assessment

Grade Smarter, Not Harder: How Efficient Daily Grading Can Prevent Burnout

These 6 tips can help teachers prevent grading from piling up and give students the immediate feedback that helps them learn and improve.
Enabling Change

Prepare for What Comes Next: 3 Essential Factors of a School's Successful COVID Response

Distributive leadership, a collaborative culture, and student voice can keep students engaged and learning, even in the most challenging of times.
Enabling Change

Clear Values, Compassionate Leadership, and a Can-Do Attitude

​These districts faced the complex challenges of the pandemic with a human-centered approach that allowed their response to be nimble and agile.
New Designs for School

Lessons Learned from Remote Teaching: Reevaluating Our Values to Prioritize Connection and Care

These four lessons value the time of parents, colleagues, students, and ourselves, fostering a culture of care in our schools.