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Enabling Change

Move Forward, Learning from Setbacks: Transformation Design Deep Dive Guide

The Transformation Design Deep Dive Guides help district teams develop a strategy to strengthen their district's use of an action in the Transformation Design Framework of Core Practices. An extension of the Transformation Design District Self-Assessment, the tools shift teams from reflection to bold, deliberate action that accelerates progress in their districtwide learning transformation. Move Forward, Learning from Setbacks is one action district communities can take to rebuild the learning experience.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, February 2021
Enabling Change

Redesign Policies and Procedures: Transformation Design Deep Dive Guide

The Transformation Design Deep Dive Guides help district teams develop a strategy to strengthen their district's use of an action in the Transformation Design Framework of Core Practices. An extension of the Transformation Design District Self-Assessment, the tools shift teams from reflection to bold, deliberate action that accelerates progress in their districtwide learning transformation. Redesign Policies and Procedures is one action district communities can take to embed an aligned infrastructure.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, February 2021
Enabling Change

Reallocate Organizational Resources: Transformation Design Deep Dive Guide

The Transformation Design Deep Dive Guides help district teams develop a strategy to strengthen their district's use of an action in the Transformation Design Framework of Core Practices. An extension of the Transformation Design District Self-Assessment, the tools shift teams from reflection to bold, deliberate action that accelerates progress in their districtwide learning transformation. Reallocate Organizational Resources is one action district communities can take to embed an aligned infrastructure.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, February 2021
New Designs for School

Preparing Students for Life after High School: Blackstone Academy Charter School's Approach to College & Career

The vision for college and career preparation at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island is for students to have as many opportunities for a future path as possible, a way to help break systems of generational poverty and racism. This publication explores the school's approach to making sure students graduate with a deep sense of themselves, how they can serve their communities, and specific, discrete plans for what they will be doing after they graduate—and the skills and knowledge to make it happen. It was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, April 2021
New Designs for School

Blackstone Academy Charter School College & Career: A Podcast

The vision for college and career preparation at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island is for students to have as many opportunities for a future path as possible. Listen to this 13-minute podcast that highlights how Blackstone approaches college and career planning and how it connects to the larger purpose of the school. This podcast was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, April 2021
New Designs for School

From Inquiry to Action: Blackstone Academy Charter School's Approach to Academics

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. This publication explores the school's approach to community-based projects organized around essential questions, which includes performance-based assessment and integrated academic and social-emotional support. It was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
New Designs for School

Blackstone Academy Charter School 9th Grade Experience: A Podcast

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. In this 6-minute podcast, ninth grade dean and science teacher John Horton talks about the ninth grade experience at Blackstone Academy. This podcast was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
New Designs for School

Blackstone Academy Charter School Game-Based Learning in English Class: A Podcast

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. In this 5-minute podcast, English teacher Erin Malcolm explains how she uses game-based learning in class, including when the students read The Great Gatsby. This podcast was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
New Designs for School

Visual Arts at Blackstone Academy Charter School: A Podcast

The academic model at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Rhode Island focuses not only on what students learn but also on who they are and how they act in the world. In this 4-minute podcast, art teacher Meghan Healy discusses how the lessons learned in art class apply to all subjects and life. This podcast was prepared to support a virtual Learning Excursion for school teams of diverse stakeholders to learn more about Blackstone Academy and become inspired to redesign their own high schools.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, August 2021
Designing for Equity

Unearthing Hidden Gems in an American Public High School: A Three-Pronged Approach to Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students

Infused with personal stories of students who are English language learners and recently-arrived immigrants and refugees, this essay explores how International High School at Langley Park (IHSLP) in Maryland incorporates trauma-informed practices into academic and extracurricular programming and leverages restorative justice practices to begin the long overdue healing process for students, families, and community members. Among the factors contributing to student success, the most innovative center on mastery-based learning and a three-pronged approach to trauma-informed practices and restorative justice.

Written by NGLC Co-Director Carlos Beato and Daniel J. Sass of School In The Square in New York, for the Reparative Justice, Racial Restoration, and Education series published by the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute, August 2021.