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New Designs for School

Teaching Portrait of a Graduate Skills

Find out how teachers are changing their role, mindset, and instructional practice to help their students develop portrait of a graduate skills.
Building Community

The Importance of Distributed Leadership for Innovative Teaching and Learning

Now, more than ever, school leaders need to empower others and create a collaborative culture of decision making regarding teaching and learning.
Building Community

7 Small Changes to Support Your Mental Health This School Year

Teachers can sustain their mental health and well-being throughout the school year with these seven small but foundational research-based strategies.
Designing for Equity

Beyond the Back-to-School Student Survey: Culturally Responsive Teaching All Year Long

Discover 5 ideas to embrace culturally responsive and inclusive learning in all its complexity to help students develop a sense of belonging, academic success, and a critical worldview.
Why Schools Need to Change

Developing Portrait of a Graduate Skills from Elementary School to High School Graduation (and Beyond)

School communities are using their graduate portraits to redesign learning in elementary school and middle school as well as high school.
Reimagining Assessment

Against Extractive Assessment

If we want to lessen the extractive forces in our educational system, we might look to less aggressive forms of information gathering in learning and assessment.
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

New Perspectives to Examine

Learn about The Portrait of a Graduate in Practice with more stories and perspectives!
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.