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Reimagining Assessment

Grades vs. Continuous Learning: Learners Are Entitled to the A

If school communities continue operating in a system that is using grades to laser inscribe value on students—they all deserve the A.
Reimagining Assessment

Testing for Dummies: 5 Facts about Standardized Testing

As states release standardized test scores, the rhetoric reflects false understandings of their meaning and impact on policy goals and needs.
Technology Tools

To and through Algebra: Support for Educators and Students

Teachers need more support to help students get into and through algebra, a gatekeeper to advanced math learning required for both college and career success.
Building Community

What’s Wrong with the Four Day School Week?

Instead of 4-day school weeks, many schools and districts are using creative and effective strategies that improve teacher working conditions while expanding authentic learning opportunities.
New Designs for School

How Schools Can Respond to the Student Mental Health Crisis

Schools can take these proactive steps to support student mental health and serve as psychological safe places for both students and educators.
Enabling Change

Policy or Practice: Which Comes First in School Innovation?

See how Kentucky's United We Learn Council combines policy and practice so educators and community partners can create relevant learning with students.
Why Schools Need to Change

Who’s Really Responsible for College and Career “Readiness”?

Find out why colleges & careers need to be better prepared to educate and employ our youth, as much as young people need to become college & career ready.
Why Schools Need to Change

Turning School Libraries into Discipline Centers Is Not the Answer to Disruptive Classroom Behavior

A Houston proposal to replace school libraries with discipline centers fails to address the root causes of student misbehavior. Find out what will.
Professional Learning

"We're Working as One": How One Principal Built Her Leadership Team to Improve Instruction

An elementary school strengthened coaching to improve teaching, learning and student outcomes with distributed leadership on the instructional leadership team.
Professional Learning

Ready to Redesign High School in New England? Apply Now for Spring 2024 Learning Excursions

Small grants are available for New England teams interested in re-imagining high school with excursions to Manchester, Connecticut, and central Vermont.