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Enabling Change

White Supremacy Culture Is Constraining Our Thinking about Reopening School

​We can create better solutions to reopening schools if we challenge the ways that the characteristics of white supremacy culture show up in our thinking.​
Enabling Change

Failure This School Year Is Inevitable. Now What?

​Educators have an impossible challenge ahead of them this year and they are courageously working to get it as right as possible.
Designing for Equity

Voices, Tools, and Resources for Equity in Education

Resources for educators who are committed to redesigning their schools so that education can be a force for diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
Professional Learning

Now, More than Ever, Teacher Meetings and PD Need to Practice What They Preach

Right now, teacher PD should model best practices for remote learning. It will increase engagement, reduce teachers' anxiety, and create space for experimentation.​
Designing for Equity

Identity Safe Classroms, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Belonging and Learning

Co-authored by Amy Epstein of Assessment for Learning Project grantee Leadership Public Schools, this book offers design principles, research-evidence, and pragmatic strategies to create identity safe classrooms. In identity safe classrooms, students facing negative stereotypes or viewed as different are “seen,” accepted, and valued for who and what they are. Online resources are available for download from the publisher.

Becki Cohn-Vargas, Alexandrea Creer Kahn, and Amy Epstein, 2020
Professional Learning

3 Ways to Support New Teachers Joining Your Team This Year

Three ways to ensure new teachers feel they belong, they are prepared, and they are excited, even with COVID-19 changing back-to-school traditions.
Reimagining Assessment

Ethics, Tension, Relationships, and Questions

Reflection and dialogue are at the heart of rethinking assessment, and how we frame our reflections and conversations in our professional relationships matters.
Building Community

Teaching beyond the (Modern) Classroom

What motivates a teacher to transform the way they teach? A look at educators using blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning in their classrooms.
Enabling Change

Hunting Shipwrecks: Why Valuing Error Improves Outcomes

In a challenging, human-centered field like education, much of what we try to improve outcomes doesn’t work. But how well do we really learn from failure?
Professional Learning

How Teacher Feedback Affects Instruction

This solution for frequent feedback gives teachers and their mentors actionable data on practices that research has shown to promote student learning.