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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
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.
New Designs for School

A Checklist Approach: The Springpoint Guide to Remote Learning as a Beacon

How do we prepare for a school year that, regardless of the scenario, will look nothing like any school year before? This school is focused on 3 key levers.
Professional Learning

When Innovative Summer PD Goes Virtual: A Summer of Virtual Learning for BPS Teacher Externs

The Boston Public Schools Externship Program for teachers went virtual this summer. The result: increased participation and deeper connections.
Designing for Equity

Student-Led IEPs: Realizing the Promise of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act

In student-led IEPs, students are active participants in creating their learning plan, providing opportunities to deepen their understanding of themselves.
New Designs for School

Using Design Thinking for Equitable Remote Classrooms

Educators can redesign "classrooms" for equitable and engaging virtual learning with design thinking, community-centered learning, and teacher resources.
Designing for Equity

Equity Responses to Private Pandemic Pods

Learning pods offer face-to-face support for remote learning, socialization, and childcare but are they widening learning and opportunity gaps?