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Reimagining Assessment

Learner-Centered Assessment: Senior Capstones Measure What Matters

My Vision Personalized is a senior capstone project that exemplifies authentic, performance-based assessment aligned to students’ unique strengths, interests, and values.
Reimagining Assessment

Learner-Centered Assessment: Grading for Competency

Redesigning grading systems to be more personalized, equitable, and standards-based is a major undertaking. These educators are working to figure it out.
Why Schools Need to Change

Leading for Deeper Learning in Kentucky

Once recognizing the need for a very different kind of school experience, how can district leaders start working with a community to redefine success and reimagine learning?
New Designs for School

The Power of Controlled Chaos: Fostering Engagement Through Learner Autonomy

Lasting knowledge and skills comes when students control their learning. Here's how teachers can embrace a bit of chaos to create meaningful learning.
Reimagining Assessment

Simplifying Competency Assessment: The One-Point Rubric

Rubrics are challenging to develop and hard to use well, an alternative option to assess competencies can keep the best about rubrics while avoiding the pitfalls.
Building Community

Pipelines, Shortages, and Workforces: Why Do We Still Think of Teachers as Workers on an Assembly Line?

The terms “teacher pipelines,” “teacher shortages,” and “teacher workforce” reflect assumptions about the teaching profession that hide the systemic challenges behind teacher recruitment and retention.
Building Community

Wisdom Road: Powerful Lakota Wisdom and Values

Lifelong educator Tamera Miyasato has created a number of teaching resources around core values of Lakota wisdom traditions with value for all learners.
Enabling Change

Re-Framing Our Young People's Times, Part 1

How can we most usefully transition from the last pre-internet generation the world will ever know, to the world’s first internet generation?
Designing for Equity

Self-Actualization and Organizational Development

NGLC is taking an approach to individual and organizational growth that is closer to an Indigenous worldview that we are born fully self-actualized.
Enabling Change

Re-Framing Our Young People's Times, Part 2

Empowering young people is about making it possible for them to choose their own direction, to get useful things done, to impact their world.