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Designing for Equity

How to Make Senior Capstones Truly Anti-Racist

Alternative assessments are not inherently equitable without concerted effort.
New Designs for School

Create a Learning Recovery Plan for Your Returning Students

Unfinished learning resulting from the pandemic exacerbated the decades-old challenge of summer learning loss. A plan for learning recovery should include these 6 components.
Enabling Change

This Epiphany Changed These Schools and Districts and the Lives of the Families They Serve. It Could Do the Same for You.

Is your school living your graduate profile among students and adults? The stories of these schools’ response to COVID vividly demonstrate why you should.
Enabling Change

Clear Values, Compassionate Leadership, and a Can-Do Attitude

​These districts faced the complex challenges of the pandemic with a human-centered approach that allowed their response to be nimble and agile.
Enabling Change

Three Schools that Found the COVID-19 Pandemic to Be “Business as Usual”

During the pandemic, 3 learner-centered schools doubled down on relationships and the conditions each child needed to thrive.
Building Community

In a Tough School Year, Keeping Eyes on the Classroom Will Be Key to Improving Equitable Outcomes for All

Improving what happens in the classroom is key to long-term change in schools. Observing classrooms must be more about continuous learning than evaluation.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Full Spectrum Narrative of a School for English Language Learners

Student-centered evidence helps International High School at Langley Park better serve English language learners and disrupts the narrative about ELLs.
Designing for Equity

5 Lessons (and Counting) from Our Effort to Remake NGLC as an Anti-Racist Organization with Diverse Co-Directors

Our journey isn't done & may never be. But in launching the transformation of NGLC to integrate next gen learning with social justice, we are learning a lot that may help others traveling a similar path.
Enabling Change

Emancipatory Organizational Design: An Alternative to School and District Bureaucracy

Discover the 8 characteristics of an "emancipatory organizational design" for school districts, and move to school systems that create coherence, equity, and powerful learning for students and adults.
New Designs for School

Five Essential Systems of Student Support: Trusting the Past to Get to the Future

​While we innovate a new K-12 model, we can use five time-tested strategies now to strengthen the social-emotional, teacher-to-student relationships that are key to success.