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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.
Reimagining Assessment

A Systems Approach to Creating an Ecology of Equity in a High-Poverty School District

This memo highlights the ongoing work of the Sunnyside Unified School District (SUSD) to create an ecology of equity by developing a school system that fosters a belief in each person’s capacity to learn and increases students’ opportunities for success by helping students take responsibility for their own learning through the use of evidence. SUSD is also changing the conditions under which students learn by creating multilevel professional learning opportunities for adults in the district. SUSD is a partner in WestEd's Assessment for Learning Project (ALP) grant.

Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), June 2020
Enabling Change

TeacherCast Podcast featuring Andy Calkins

In this podcast, Andy Calkins, director of Next Generation Learning Challenges, joins host Jeffrey Bradbury to talk about districts that are transforming their systems to equip students with 21st Century skills, the impact of COVID-19 and how districts continued providing rich learning experiences for students, and why next generation learning and reimagining the learning experience is so important.

TeacherCast Educational Network, June 16, 2020
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.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Revolution in Education: Can it happen NOW? And how?

In this podcast hosted by Chris Unger, NGLC director Andy Calkins joins consultant Grant Lichtman and Kelly Young, president of Education Reimagined, to answer how educators at every level of the education system can effectively pursue new possibilities in agency and opportunity for all youth moving forward. They answer how a revolution in education might happen NOW.

A Revolution in Education Podcast Series, July 2020
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.