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New Designs for School

Taking a Modern Approach to Project-Based Learning

Can project-based learning succeed virtually, during a pandemic? It's possible, as this teacher found by fusing PBL with self-paced, mastery-based instruction.
Professional Learning

In-House Professional Learning

With support from their school's in-house research center, teachers are leading professional learning and innovation.
New Designs for School

A Modern Computer Programming Classroom

With a self-paced, mastery-based instructional design, students in a HS coding course took initiative, coded high-quality programs, and taught others to code.
Designing for Equity

Getting to Brave: How My School Is Uncovering Our Unconscious Racial Bias

When this school examined systemic racism and its impact on students, it found vastly different perspectives on racial bias in culture, practices & policies.
Reimagining Assessment

Falsehoods We Believe about Assessment

This list examines K-12 education's false assumptions about assessment, in the tradition of popular "Falsehoods" lists.
New Designs for School

Nurturing Identity and Belonging in a Challenging Time

​Educators at Barnstable Intermediate School design learning to promote student engagement, empowerment, and connections to each other and the community.
Enabling Change

The Question Everyone in Public Education Should Be Asking Right Now

What can we learn from those public schools and districts that pivoted creatively and effectively in the face of COVID-19?
Building Community

7 Steps toward Schoolwide Implementation

An instructional coach worked with a school team on these 7 steps to support teachers as they shifted to self-paced, mastery-based learning.
New Designs for School

For There Is Always Light: Innovation in Arts Education

What can we learn from the innovative approaches to teaching and learning used by teachers of art and music during the pandemic?
Enabling Change

Map Roles by Strengths: Transformation Design Deep Dive Guide

The Transformation Design Deep Dive Guides help district teams develop a strategy to strengthen their district's use of an action in the Transformation Design Framework of Core Practices. An extension of the Transformation Design District Self-Assessment, the tools shift teams from reflection to bold, deliberate action that accelerates progress in their districtwide learning transformation. Map Roles by Strengths is one action district communities can take to activate change agents for the learning transformation.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, February 2021