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Building Community

Fueling the Fire: In Kentucky, an Innovation that Honors the Past

Metcalfe County Schools is creating a community-based, authentic work experience in which students prepare for the future while honoring their community's past.
Reimagining Assessment

The Greatest Challenge to Scaling Competency-Based Learning

What is the greatest challenge to competency-based learning scaling across America? It's not seat time mandates.
New Designs for School

Fayette County Public Schools

District & university partnership school with blended, competency-based & dual enrollment opportunities

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Lodestar

Lighthouse Community Charter Public School

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New Designs for School

Education Achievement Authority of Michigan: Nolan K-8

Student-centered turnaround model organized by instructional level not age or grade - no longer operating

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New Designs for School

KIPP Chicago Schools: KIPP One

Blended learning middle school

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New Designs for School

Redesigning Teaching and Learning: It's About Time

Innovation takes time. These four practices can help free up time to jumpstart innovation in the classroom.
Enabling Change

Factory Model Change Won't End the Era of Factory Model Schools

These innovative educators think they may know how to change away from factory model schools, and it isn't mandates and incentives.
Building Community

Educators Are Artists, Let's Act Like It!

The work of next generation learning in Colorado Springs School District 11 has some striking similarities to group painting excursions.
Why Schools Need to Change

Mindsets and the New Brain Science

Success doesn’t bring happiness. Happiness brings success and it’s possible for schools to foster optimism and social support and help students manage stress.