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Enabling Change

EMPOWERED! Re-Framing Growing Up for a New Generation, Part 2

An empowered vision for the new generation of humans now growing up centers on young people having the power, while they are still young, to make their world a better place.
Designing for Equity

Creating a Brave Community: A Resource Guide to Designing Effective DEI Professional Development

Use this "Awake-Woke-Work" guide to design DEI PD that leads to sustainable, integrated practices that effectively address educational inequities in schools.
New Designs for School

Community Partners Motivate Students to Dig in

Community partnerships invigorate learning and give students an opportunity to design with a purpose.
Enabling Change

What Happens When Students and Community Members Help Write Your Strategic Plan? The Story of Inclusive Design in Burlington School District

Burlington School District practiced four new habits of working together with a community-based coalition to create and enact a new five-year strategic plan that reflects the needs of and is broadly endorsed by diverse stakeholders.
Professional Learning

Teachers Need to Experience Powerful Learning Too

This excerpt from the recently released book, Sparks Into Fire, is a story of teacher PD that underscores why improving schools will require powerful changes to teacher learning.
Enabling Change

Transforming Learning Is a Journey. Here Are Some Essential Lessons So We Can Treat It Like One!

These 8 metaphors from a long and challenging hike through the Pyrenees offer essential lessons for transforming learning in schools and districts.
Building Community

Wisdom Road: 3 Wise Women from Baggs, Wyoming

These are the first interviews from the listening journey Grant Lichtman is on to unearth deep cultural wisdom across the continent. What can we better pass along to the rising generation?
New Designs for School

Making It Personal: Why a ‘Relationships First’ Strategy Matters at the Start of a School Year

Discover 5 effective ways to build a positive "relationships first" school culture and make schools better equipped to impact academic outcomes.
Enabling Change

EMPOWERED! Chapter 2. A New Generation Seeing Things in a New Way, Part 1

As this generation faces a fast-changing world, choosing to re-frame our view with a clear vision of what’s possible for young people can be difficult but very useful.
Enabling Change

EMPOWERED! Chapter 2. A New Generation Seeing Things in a New Way, Part 2

The idea of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants helped us make sense of generational changes. What other re-framing can help us support today’s youth?