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Enabling Change

White Supremacy Culture Is Constraining Our Thinking about Reopening School

​We can create better solutions to reopening schools if we challenge the ways that the characteristics of white supremacy culture show up in our thinking.​
Enabling Change

Failure This School Year Is Inevitable. Now What?

​Educators have an impossible challenge ahead of them this year and they are courageously working to get it as right as possible.
New Designs for School

Using Design Thinking for Equitable Remote Classrooms

Educators can redesign "classrooms" for equitable and engaging virtual learning with design thinking, community-centered learning, and teacher resources.
Designing for Equity

Equity Responses to Private Pandemic Pods

Learning pods offer face-to-face support for remote learning, socialization, and childcare but are they widening learning and opportunity gaps?
New Designs for School

Preparing Learners to Navigate a Changing Career Landscape

​This NGLC Practitioner's Guide explores "profession-based learning" with the Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) Network; resources included.
New Designs for School

Whole-Child Touchstones for COVID Pivots (and Beyond)

Three strategies for whole-child development have persisted as important touchstones for learning by prioritizing relationships, well-being, and agency.
Why Schools Need to Change

Five Educator-Driven Innovations Emerging in the Era of COVID-19

Five inspiring projects, including personalized PD at Lindsay Unified, are innovating education despite the challenges presented by the pandemic.
Building Community

Leadership in and for Community

TFA Memphis supports educators to be community leaders and change agents as the program's alumni engage with each other and their community.
Designing for Equity

Equity Work: Too Much Talk, Too Little Action

​To get to equity in education, we need a better balance between talk and action. And we have a real opportunity to start taking action now.
Building Community

Now is the Time to Activate Teachers as Leaders and Change Agents

Schools are trying out distributed leadership during the pandemic and existing power dynamics are shifting with the culture of shared authority and trust.