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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.
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.
Enabling Change

Prepare for What Comes Next: 3 Essential Factors of a School's Successful COVID Response

Distributive leadership, a collaborative culture, and student voice can keep students engaged and learning, even in the most challenging of times.
Enabling Change

Clear Values, Compassionate Leadership, and a Can-Do Attitude

​These districts faced the complex challenges of the pandemic with a human-centered approach that allowed their response to be nimble and agile.
New Designs for School

Lessons Learned from Remote Teaching: Reevaluating Our Values to Prioritize Connection and Care

These four lessons value the time of parents, colleagues, students, and ourselves, fostering a culture of care in our schools.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Truth about Education Falsehoods: Why Discerning the Truth about Our Assumptions Is Integral to Ethical Education

What we believe about learning and kids will change how we behave with kids and learning. It's the foundation of ethics in education.
Enabling Change

Adult Learning Culture: An Underrated Ingredient for Success in Uncertain Times

Three next gen schools demonstrate why it's so important to invest in adults to build a learning culture that's strong enough to weather any storm.
Enabling Change

Three Schools that Found the COVID-19 Pandemic to Be “Business as Usual”

During the pandemic, 3 learner-centered schools doubled down on relationships and the conditions each child needed to thrive.
Why Schools Need to Change

Making Mental Health a Priority in Schools with Time, Talent, and Trust

As Distinctive Schools is making new investments to provide support for mental health and wellness to teachers, students, and families, they offer 4 ways to invest in mental health in schools.