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Reimagining Assessment

How Does a Feedback Loop Encourage a Culture of Learning Conversation in the Classroom?

​​Engaging teachers in honest & meaningful feedback loops with one another is one way Henry County Schools models learning conversations for students.​
Why Schools Need to Change

Problem-Based Learning: Preparing Students for the Race of Their Lives

What's the value of instruction that offers theory without valuable, hands-on practical experience?
Reimagining Assessment

Developing Replacement Behaviors for Traditional Measures

Let's shift the conversation about test scores toward developing replacement behaviors that empower learners to regularly demonstrate their proficiency.
New Designs for School

Self-Pacing: The Key to Differentiating Effectively for All Learners

By restructuring our classrooms to transfer ownership to the learner, we discovered that the most effective method to differentiate was clear: self-pacing.
Enabling Change

Personal Learning: Perspectives from Schools, Districts, and the Community

As many U.S. school districts struggle to implement personalized learning, educators and school leaders can look to some exemplars that are paving the way.
Enabling Change

A Deep, Rich, Broad Evidence Base for Personalized Learning

Center on Reinventing Public Education, August 2018
Enabling Change

Personalized Learning’s Weakest Link?

In the push for next gen learning, NGLC director Andy Calkins says the biggest challenge is effective change management.
New Designs for School

Moving from Passive to Active Learning: Four Ways to Overcome Student Resistance

Asking students to adapt to more complex, self-directed, self-regulated learning often goes against their beliefs about how people learn.
Building Community

Moments

The purpose of school is to develop the minds of those within its walls. To do that, we first must capture their hearts...by creating moments to remember.
Why Schools Need to Change

Wayfinding Abilities: Helping Students Chart a Course through Life

Many educators are actively supporting students to develop vital Wayfinding Abilities—the capacity to navigate college, career, and life opportunities.