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New Designs for School

Infusing the Arts into Personalized Learning

Arts and academic content teachers worked together to integrate the arts into a personalized learning model for a new Chicago school.
Designing for Equity

What Happened When My School Started to Dismantle White Supremacy Culture

When Visitacion Valley Middle School staff explored White Supremacy Culture, it gave them a new framework to define their North Star: an anti-racist school.
Building Community

Live the Inclusion Dream: Two Pitfalls to Avoid in Co-Teaching

Co-teaching in an inclusion classroom has its rewards for special educators and general ed teachers alike, but only if co-teachers avoid these two pitfalls.
Professional Learning

A Meaningful Education Begins with the Relationship

How one school network is using new teacher training and ongoing PD to transform relationships among staff and with students.
Why Schools Need to Change

Creativity is the Currency of Learning

Tapping into the naturally creative instincts we have as learners can become a powerful motivator that drives learning for students in the 21st century.
Reimagining Assessment

Interest Driven Assessment Practices that Lead to Personal and Unique Performances by Learners

Student interest is a motivator and personalization increases access, but how can educators find time and energy to personalize opportunities for assessment?
Reimagining Assessment

Save the Date: Assessment for Learning Conference, Feb. 11-13, San Diego

Join the movement to fundamentally #RethinkAssessment and become part of the dynamic and growing assessment for learning community!​​
Professional Learning

Distinctive Schools Educators Learning, Designing, and Leading Together

Distinctive Schools teachers join design teams to provide expertise and critical feedback to strengthen solutions to shared problems of practice.
Professional Learning

Shining a Light on Next Gen Learning at iNACOL

Explore next gen learning with the NGLC community at the iNACOL Symposium in Palm Springs. See you there!
Why Schools Need to Change

Finding Our Why: Voices of Change-Makers

​​The "whys" that inspired participants in a recent School Design Institute to spend their weekend living the change they want to see in education.​