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Building Community

5 Steps for Leading Schools with Emotional Intelligence and Accountability

Two Rivers Public Charter School staff drive mutual accountability with an emotional intelligence framework, improving results and strengthening relationships.
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

Teaching Community and Knowing Students

A recent experience reminds the author of the power of feeling known by someone and the centrality of community and relationship building for schools.
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

NGLC brings MyWays framework to Bullitt County, KY forum

At a community forum in Bullitt County, KY, participants explored a new vision for learning and student success.
Enabling Change

A Lawyer Walks into a Classroom

How my experience as an attorney helps me teach—and how you can apply that in your own classes (without enduring law school!).
Reimagining Assessment

Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments: Lessons From Hawaiian-Focused Charter Schools

Hawaiian-focused Charter School students complete culturally relevant capstone projects at key moments in their education journey to demonstrate their learning.
Enabling Change

Next Gen Learning Requires Next Gen Change Management

Mission Vista High School in Vista, CA, empowers teachers to own and lead the transformation of student learning.
Reimagining Assessment

Keeping Students at the Center with Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments

Performance assessments provide a critical space for students to reflect on and share their personal stories and their identities as learners.
Designing for Equity

Transforming Schools through Whole-Child, Hands-On, Community-Based Education

This Baltimore school transformed itself with hands-on, culturally relevant learning; true community and family engagement; and lots of fun.