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New Designs for School

Learners Front and Center for Learner-Centered Design

Student designers in Fall River, MA take a leadership role in reimagining learning at their school.
Why Schools Need to Change

Using Design Thinking to Set the Vision for a Career Superhighway

Envisioning a career superhighway in Vista, CA through empathy interviews with students.
Reimagining Assessment

3 Powerful Examples of School Districts Using Capstones and Portfolios

Colorado's graduation guidelines offer options including performance-based demonstrations of college and career readiness such as portfolios and capstoness.
New Designs for School

Boston’s Innovative Approach to Reconnecting High School Dropouts

The district is reconnecting high school dropouts by focusing on life goals, academic gaps, social-emotional challenges, and personal commitments.
Designing for Equity

Street Data: A New Grammar for Educational Equity

Whose voices are included, tokenized, and silenced as we address equity in our schools? Experiment with the strategic use of "street data" to be more inclusive.
Building Community

Why (and How) I Teach This Way: An Educator Talks about Project-Based Learning

An educator at San Diego's High Tech High shares the why's and how's of project-based learning in his Humanities classroom.
New Designs for School

Transforming Education: Robotics and Its Value for Next Gen Learning

More and more students in St. Vrain Valley Schools are engaged in robotics, and the program is triggering broader, systemic change in the district.
Why Schools Need to Change

'How Do We Steer This Thing?' The Missing Element in Next Generation Learning

The concept of "cornerstone careers" may help many more school communities transform learning to address the lack of economic mobility for low-income youth.
Reimagining Assessment

How’s Discipline at Your School? Don’t Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

The results of a national study on perceptions of school discipline fairness can help start conversations about discipline policy and leading by listening.
Why Schools Need to Change

Using Community Ideas to Shape the Vision for a Career Superhighway

Vista Unified is using the design thinking process with community representatives to re-envision career development in the region.