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Enabling Change

10 Principles to Move Your School toward Distributive Leadership

Giving up control is the key to finding success as a leader, teacher and even parent in a blended school. First and foremost, you must trust the people around you.
New Designs for School

The 5 Shifts of Competency-Based Education

At its core, competency-based education can be defined by five major shifts in how an educational system operates.
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Competency-Based Approaches in K-12 Schools, Part Two

NGLC grantee USC Hybrid High has committed its competency-based education model to a larger goal: positive multigenerational change.
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Design Thinking Infiltrates K-12 Education

An emerging K-12 pedagogy, design thinking means coming up with practical, creative solutions to current problems, with the intent of an improved future result.
Technology Tools

Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants

As the school year ramps up, it's easy for anyone to get caught up in an adversarial approach to technology and learning; digital immigrants versus digital natives. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
New Designs for School

Embracing the Hard Parts: 8 Video Resources for Authentic Learning Design

To understand how the magic of authentic learning emerges from the methods teachers use behind the scenes, sometimes you just need to see PBL in action.
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Experts Weigh in on Competency-Based Education

Competency-based approaches to learning—where learning becomes stretched by pace and path—are a game-changer for schools focused on deeper learning outcomes.
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How Next Gen Learning Can Support Student Agency

Ownership. Freedom. Respect. Trust. Courage. Souls on Fire. Find out what student agency is and why it’s so important to education today.
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The Importance of Social Emotional Learning in K-12 Education

Why is it that Thrive Public Schools feels so strongly that blended learning must be paired with social-emotional learning?
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K-12 Roundup of Tools and Resources: Protocols and Processes in Personalized Learning Classrooms

What new classroom protocols and processes are bubbling up in personalized learning environments? Find out in this insightful resource roundup.