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Reimagining Assessment

Digital Badges and Academic Transformation

In higher ed, digital badges represent successful completion of a variety of learning experiences both inside and outside of the traditional for-credit course.
Reimagining Assessment

The Power of Student Agency in Assessment and Learning

Professional learning focused on student self-assessment and peer feedback rather than prescriptive instructional practice advances agency and learning for teachers and students.
New Designs for School

Beware the Iconography Trap of Personalized Learning: Rigor Matters

Betheny Gross of CRPE names two common sense strategies to help districts support both rigor and personalization.
Professional Learning

Next Gen Tools: Hiring for Mindset

Because teachers are the most important school-based factor for student success, hiring matters. Hiring for mindset involves a performance-based experience, where current students and teachers have a strong voice in the selection process, and a candidate’s fit with school culture has at least equal weight with performance and content knowledge.
Professional Learning

How to Hire Teachers with a Next Gen Mindset

Successful next gen schools are reimagining hiring; tools to implement the strategy are included in a new publication from NGLC.
New Designs for School

Project-Based Learning: Necessary but Insufficient

Project-based learning is phenomenal. But it is not enough. Thrive has developed a way to integrate learning discrete skills without losing the magic of PBL.
Enabling Change

Technology’s Unmet Progressive Promise

Personalized learning schools interested in progressive teaching should ask themselves how they could use technology to support deeper, meaningful learning in ways that go beyond using tech for drill-and-skill learning.
Reimagining Assessment

From Dinopocalypse to Digital Badges at Del Lago Academy

How do people actually learn to be competent scientists? This essential question fueled the collaborative process Del Lago Academy used with students, teachers, and industry partners to create its badging system.
New Designs for School

Calling for a ‘Soup to Nuts’ Approach to Competency-Based Education

Is there a better approach to developing Competency-Based Education programs than the 'DIY' path many colleges and universities take?
Enabling Change

Personalized Learning Can’t Ignore School Leaders

It’s time to add supports for principals who are leading the change to personalized learning in their schools.