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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.
Designing for Equity

Building for Equity: A Guide for Inclusive School Redesign

Building for Equity is a practical guide that brings culturally-responsive teaching, social justice, and critical pedagogy to the fore, so that we are not only talking about equity, we’re building it. This guide provides practical, innovative best practices that walk teachers through the redesign process to create equitable learning experiences that fit their school's context. The Building for Equity guide weaves together the personal learning and design principles that drive sustainable, equitable school change, along with a slate of useful tools.

Center for Collaborative Education, February 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.
Reimagining Assessment

Formative Assessment and Online Learning: What Are Non-Negotiables for the New School Year?

​Three formative assessment teachers evaluate which aspects of their practice are non-negotiable as they ​prepare for online instruction in the new school year.​
Designing for Equity

Taking Action toward DEI and Antiracist Commitments Remotely

As a nation, we are not very good at addressing racism—and certainly not virtually. Considerations to advance DEI and antiracist work at a distance.
Enabling Change

The Best Way to Reopen Schools This Fall

This solution for safely reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic enables families, teachers, and students to choose what will work best for them.
New Designs for School

Moving Forward to Transform Learning in Bullitt County, KY

Bullitt County's schools are using their new graduate profile so students become not just college and career ready but life ready too.
Reimagining Assessment

Assessment for Good? The Conversation that Has to Happen

Relation-based assessment for learning is needed after a spring of trauma to figure out how youth are doing and where they are in relation to the curriculum.
New Designs for School

21st Century Learners as Activists

Education is not immune to racial and economic inequities; teaching advocacy, curiosity and critical information analysis equips students to take action.
Enabling Change

The Multiple Fallacies of Reopening School

A failure of imagination may be the greatest barrier to opening schools in ways that provide the best learning conditions for students during the pandemic.