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New Designs for School

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.
Building Community

Lead Like an Education Punk Rocker

More than a music genre, punk rock was a social movement with some important lessons for education leaders working to create real, lasting change in schools.
Professional Learning

Learning Excursions

Giving teachers personalized professional learning authentically enables next gen personalized learning for students. We look at an example of this with a recent "learning excursion" to San Diego schools.
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Moving at Your Own Pace

Get the evidence behind “moving at your own pace” and examples of this instructional move in practice.
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10 Lessons Learned from Game Changers and Ground Breakers

These personalized learning pioneers have some powerful advice to give those looking to embark on the journey of education innovation and transformation.
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An Innovation Conversation in the Nation's Oldest School District

Two educators in Boston Public Schools discuss the challenges of—and possible solutions for—making the transition to an innovative school model.
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Equitable Design Principles for Schools

If we want more equitable school designs, we’ll have to purposefully design for it. Principles establish values, qualities & functionality to guide the design process.