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New Designs for School

A Pandemic-Proof Approach to Teaching

Coronavirus may close our school, but it will never stop my students from learning.
New Designs for School

My Secret Weapon for Distance Learning: Accountable, Self-Paced, Mastery-Based Instruction

These 4 strategies for measuring—and increasing—student engagement during distance learning build on accountable, self-paced, mastery-based learning experiences.
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The Elementary Years: Prime Time for Blended Learning

A 4th grade teaching team adopts blended learning to better meet the needs of their learners, offering classroom strategies for elementary educators.
Designing for Equity

Building for Equity: A Guide for Inclusive School Redesign

Building for Equity is a practical guide that brings culturally-responsive teaching, social justice, and critical pedagogy to the fore, so that we are not only talking about equity, we’re building it. This guide provides practical, innovative best practices that walk teachers through the redesign process to create equitable learning experiences that fit their school's context. The Building for Equity guide weaves together the personal learning and design principles that drive sustainable, equitable school change, along with a slate of useful tools.

Center for Collaborative Education, February 2020
New Designs for School

Solving the Iceberg Problem: Addressing Unfinished Learning in Middle School Math through Tailored Acceleration

Tailored acceleration allows each student to access the most efficient learning path to get to college and career readiness.
Designing for Equity

Student-Led IEPs: Realizing the Promise of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act

In student-led IEPs, students are active participants in creating their learning plan, providing opportunities to deepen their understanding of themselves.
New Designs for School

A Modern Computer Programming Classroom

With a self-paced, mastery-based instructional design, students in a HS coding course took initiative, coded high-quality programs, and taught others to code.
Building Community

7 Steps toward Schoolwide Implementation

An instructional coach worked with a school team on these 7 steps to support teachers as they shifted to self-paced, mastery-based learning.
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For There Is Always Light: Innovation in Arts Education

What can we learn from the innovative approaches to teaching and learning used by teachers of art and music during the pandemic?
New Designs for School

Empowering Students as Authors of their Own Education

Classrooms that integrate self-pacing and project-based learning are designed to empower students at the highest level.