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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.
New Designs for School

Student Voice

The theory, evidence and practice of student voice, an essential component of personalizing learning and ensuring that students exercise their agency.
New Designs for School

Top 6 Themes of the “Friday Focus” Practitioner’s Guide to Next Gen Learning

The insights, surprises, challenges, collective hardships, and joys of next gen learning practice this year will shape how innovation in K-12 continues in the years to come.
New Designs for School

Building 21’s Competency Design and Dashboard

Find out how “Passion + Agency = Impact” within Building 21’s competency-based learning framework.
New Designs for School

Science Leadership Academy: What Will You Create Today?

The capstone and individualized learning plan projects at SLA allow students to craft a project that reflects their unique interests and goals.
Enabling Change

Cultivating a Positive Adult Culture: Find Ways to Say Yes

At the core of personalized learning is a rich adult culture where educators collaboratively and passionately find innovative solutions to shortcomings in our schools.
Building Community

Scale: What Have You Done for Me Lately?

In education, we need to rethink scale and move beyond numbers in order to achieve profound and lasting change.
Designing for Equity

Collaborative Problem-Solving Around Challenging Behaviors in Kindergarten

Teachers can employ Collaborative Problem Solving to empower students with persistently challenging behaviors to change.
Designing for Equity

Collaborative Problem-Solving around Challenging Behaviors in Middle School

A middle school teacher employs Collaborative Problem Solving to empower students with persistently challenging behaviors to change.
New Designs for School

Challenging Second-Graders to Be Critical Thinkers, Problem Solvers and World Changers

One teacher's insights on how young minds are highly capable of contributing to meaningful, real world conversations.