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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.
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