Search Results

Designing for Equity

How to Make Senior Capstones Truly Anti-Racist

Alternative assessments are not inherently equitable without concerted effort.
New Designs for School

From Inquiry to Action: Blackstone Academy Charter School's Approach to Academics

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. This publication explores the school's approach to community-based projects organized around essential questions, which includes performance-based assessment and integrated academic and social-emotional support. It was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
New Designs for School

Blackstone Academy Charter School 9th Grade Experience: A Podcast

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. In this 6-minute podcast, ninth grade dean and science teacher John Horton talks about the ninth grade experience at Blackstone Academy. This podcast was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
New Designs for School

Blackstone Academy Charter School Game-Based Learning in English Class: A Podcast

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. In this 5-minute podcast, English teacher Erin Malcolm explains how she uses game-based learning in class, including when the students read The Great Gatsby. This podcast was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
New Designs for School

Visual Arts at Blackstone Academy Charter School: A Podcast

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. In this 4-minute podcast, art teacher Meghan Healy discusses how the lessons learned in art class apply to all subjects and life. This podcast was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
Why Schools Need to Change

Where Does Agency Come From?

What does it really mean to know how to shape your life? To shape the world? 5 key questions examine ways to build agency with young people.
New Designs for School

Create a Learning Recovery Plan for Your Returning Students

Unfinished learning resulting from the pandemic exacerbated the decades-old challenge of summer learning loss. A plan for learning recovery should include these 6 components.
Enabling Change

This Epiphany Changed These Schools and Districts and the Lives of the Families They Serve. It Could Do the Same for You.

Is your school living your graduate profile among students and adults? The stories of these schools’ response to COVID vividly demonstrate why you should.
Reimagining Assessment

Grade Smarter, Not Harder: How Efficient Daily Grading Can Prevent Burnout

These 6 tips can help teachers prevent grading from piling up and give students the immediate feedback that helps them learn and improve.
Designing for Equity

Unearthing Hidden Gems in an American Public High School: A Three-Pronged Approach to Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students

Infused with personal stories of students who are English language learners and recently-arrived immigrants and refugees, this essay explores how International High School at Langley Park (IHSLP) in Maryland incorporates trauma-informed practices into academic and extracurricular programming and leverages restorative justice practices to begin the long overdue healing process for students, families, and community members. Among the factors contributing to student success, the most innovative center on mastery-based learning and a three-pronged approach to trauma-informed practices and restorative justice.

Written by NGLC Co-Director Carlos Beato and Daniel J. Sass of School In The Square in New York, for the Reparative Justice, Racial Restoration, and Education series published by the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute, August 2021.