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Enabling Change

School and District Bureaucracy Has Failed Us All. What Are Some Alternatives?

Creating coherence, equity, and powerful learning in our existing school district bureaucracies and hierarchies is a challenge. But there is a way forward.
Enabling Change

Is Next Gen Learning a Place Where the Political Sides Can Meet?

A red-state/blue-state conversation: ​Can education innovation and next gen learning bring people across the political spectrum together for the benefit of students?
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.
New Designs for School

Lessons Learned from Remote Teaching: Reevaluating Our Values to Prioritize Connection and Care

These four lessons value the time of parents, colleagues, students, and ourselves, fostering a culture of care in our schools.
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.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Full Spectrum of Evidence for Student-Centered Learning: Ready for Use, Now!

To help young people develop into high-functioning adults, we need to work with—and value—the full spectrum of evidence that demonstrates their development.
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.
Why Schools Need to Change

Why We Have Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Urgency and Too Little of the Right Kind in Education

The urgency around learning loss is keeping education spinning in place when the urgency we need is to reimagine schools to address deeply rooted challenges.
New Designs for School

All Learning Is Social and Emotional

Is there any good reason to categorize different forms of learning, to identify what's academic, interpersonal, content, skill, or emotional development?
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.