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Building Community

How I Was Raised as a Teacher

New and aspiring teachers—and their students—would be better served with extensive coaching and mentoring by experienced, competent, expert teachers.
New Designs for School

The Equity Imperative: Project-Based Distance Learning

Find out how PBL went virtual at Oakland High School: when the world shut down, students' authentic project on safe transportation continued, to great success!
Building Community

Less Scaling Up, More Rooting Down: Lessons for Education from a Japanese Mochi Maker

If we want to see lasting, meaningful change in our schools, we don't need scale. We need to root down to build relationships and community.
Building Community

The Pedagogy of Pizza Parties

A more expansive pedagogy embodies the best of teaching content while also attending to the culture that supports caring, respectful relationships.
Professional Learning

Teachers Need to Experience Powerful Learning Too

This excerpt from the recently released book, Sparks Into Fire, is a story of teacher PD that underscores why improving schools will require powerful changes to teacher learning.
Reimagining Assessment

Student Research Takes a Hopeful Turn in Oakland Unified

When OUSD Graduate Capstone research projects focused on solutions, students became more hopeful than stressed and took action on issues close to them.
New Designs for School

Student Voice: A Look Back as We Plan Ahead

These stories of learner agency and co-creation feature young people designing their own learning and redesigning their schools and communities in the process.
Reimagining Assessment

18 Things You Will See If You Are Doing Ethical Assessment in Your School

How do you know if your assessment is ethical? Look for evidence of these 18 observable outputs.
Designing for Equity

How to Make Senior Capstones Truly Anti-Racist

Alternative assessments are not inherently equitable without concerted effort.
Building Community

Pipelines, Shortages, and Workforces: Why Do We Still Think of Teachers as Workers on an Assembly Line?

The terms “teacher pipelines,” “teacher shortages,” and “teacher workforce” reflect assumptions about the teaching profession that hide the systemic challenges behind teacher recruitment and retention.