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Why Schools Need to Change

Knowing What’s True and Knowing What’s You

Teaching critical thinking and decision making involves helping students know what's true and also who they are and what they value.
Professional Learning

From Struggle to Success: A Teacher’s Journey through Professional Learning and Innovation

When teachers have choice in professional learning, they can discover the innovative, research-backed approaches to teaching that work for them.
Enabling Change

How Community Partners and Schools Work Together to Re-Engage Students in Learning

Through early intervention and concerted efforts to re-engage students, schools and their community partners can address chronic absenteeism and the negative consequences of student disengagement.
Why Schools Need to Change

Franklin Middle School Is Getting Brave

A year of reimagining student success for middle school learners begins with a day of classroom walkthroughs and conversations with students, school staff, parents, and more.
Why Schools Need to Change

Designing Education for the Alpha Generation in the Age of AI

It's time for educators to lead the charge to equip learners with new skills necessary to thrive in an AI-driven world.
Professional Learning

Adult Project Based Learning (PBL): Our Summer of Joyful Hard Work!

When adults experience project-based learning, they can see what it's like for students to engage in learning that's meaningful, complex, sustained, and open to many solutions.
Professional Learning

From Classrooms to Campfires: Fostering Educator Growth with Symmetrical Learning Adventures

A camp for teachers provides immersive professional learning that mirrors the community, agency, and joy of deeper learning for students.
Building Community

How I Shifted My Classroom Thanks to Brave Colleagues

When shifting to a student-centered, self-paced classroom, it helps to have brave colleagues who will support you, guide you, and even join you in your effort.
Building Community

The Power of Presence: Transforming Educators’ Lives through Coaching

Coaching represents an opportunity for educators and schools to strengthen and reimagine learning, culture, and systems.
New Designs for School

How to Teach Students Who Aren’t There

When chronically absent students do make it to school, they often feel lost and frustrated and behind. Self-paced, mastery-based learning can help them learn, and it can keep the rest of the class moving forward too.