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New Designs for School

The Anatomy of a Math Skill

By breaking down math skills into procedural, conceptual, and applied understanding, we can better see the connections between skills and what it takes for students to authentically learn them.
Why Schools Need to Change

Reimagining Schools: The Need for Autonomy and Humanity

With these research-based practices, we can reimagine schools in both large and small ways to be the places teachers and students are saying they need to thrive.
Reimagining Assessment

This Is Me, Learning about How I Learn.

When adults engage in project-based learning, we get a better understanding of ourselves and the experience of learning we require of students in our schools.
Reimagining Assessment

Chicken Run: How Do You Document Process in a Way that Doesn’t Suck the Life Out of Project-Based Learning?

Instead of asking, “How might students better document their learning?” what if we asked, “How do we help students tell the story of their learning?”
Why Schools Need to Change

Purpose and Problem-Solving: Developing Leaders in the Classroom

As educators transform learning in their classrooms, they can develop their students' talent and their own leadership while also making a difference for their community.
New Designs for School

3 Lessons from Transforming My Classroom

From daily stress headaches to teaching that's once again manageable and enjoyable. Find out how this teacher turned around her professional practice with self-paced, mastery-based learning.
Reimagining Assessment

Will This Be on the Test? What We Learn through a Latin Dance Competition

What students have to learn is often outside of what is assessed on state tests. A Latin Dance Competition brings deep learning, creativity, connection, and joy to this school community.
Enabling Change

Driving with the Brakes On: Why Are We Trying to Do Liberatory Practices within an Authoritarian Paradigm?

​Why does education hold onto old notions of order, control, and authority while trying to embrace newer ideas around inquiry, self-direction, and liberation? And what can we do about it?
Building Community

WISDOM ROAD: Join Me on an Audacious Journey

Grant Lichtman is starting a listening journey through the US and Canada to unearth deep cultural wisdom in “overlooked” communities. Here's how to join in the learning and guide the path he will take.
Why Schools Need to Change

Six Skills that Prepare Students for Work and Life in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The way to set young people up for success is to teach them durable, future-ready skills. These 6 skills will help students thrive in our fast-changing future.