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Professional Learning

New Year Resolution = Habit

If you find yourself on New Year's Day trying to think of a new goal for your school or staff, set the daily habits that you must form as your goals.​
Designing for Equity

Building Young Entrepreneurs for Change

Authentic self-direction, community connection, peer collaboration and social responsibility prepare children to be successful 21st century​ leaders.​
New Designs for School

Schrödinger's cat in Personalized Learning: Providing Grade Level and Individual Level Instruction

Distinctive Schools simultaneously provides rigorous grade-level instruction AND meets students where they are.​ Students need both.
Reimagining Assessment

New Hampshire's Assessment for Learning Project (ALP)

New Hampshire's Assessment for Learning Project has been a quest to deepen and personalize competency-based learning for all students.
New Designs for School

Student Goal Setting

No real personalized learning model can flourish without student goal setting as a foundational activity. Here’s why.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Year in the Making: The Second Lesson My New Year's Resolution Taught Me about Next Gen Learning

This year, as I experienced the challenging side of making, I experienced a special reward when my tangible projects were complete.
Professional Learning

Students Design, Tinker, Create and Discover through Maker-based Learning

At the core of the maker movement and its signature festival events is a desire to design, tinker, create, and discover.
Technology Tools

VR and AR: Transforming Learning and Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences

How do we interpret literature, art, history & archaeology when we are not passive recipients but co-constructors and actors in immersive experiences? ​​
Professional Learning

Online PD Enhances Teaching Skills and Improves Best Practices

Targeted training to improve teaching has become ever more important, and teachers now have a feast of options online to improve their practice.
New Designs for School

A Student’s Perspective: Some Truths About Real-World Learning

Ricky Sierra, a student at Da Vinci Extension, shares her experience in the innovative learning environment at Da Vinci Schools.