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Designing for Equity

Can an Emerging Approach to K-12 Education Buck the Troubling Trend on Women in Leadership?

Personalized learning gives girls the chance to try, to fail, and to shine without seeing roadblocks as absolute barriers.
Professional Learning

A Commons for Educator Learning

A commons for educator learning can build connections that bridge the divided ecosystem, both for learning content providers as well as for educators.
Building Community

Making School More than Academics

Two middle schools are intentionally fostering social-emotional growth in their students: making school into an experience beyond academics.
Professional Learning

Innovation in Real Time – Part I

How do you take an existing school with its long established culture, traditions, strengths, and weaknesses, and move it in a new direction?
New Designs for School

Learning by Doing at Ferguson High School

Personalized learning upends the traditional model of a teacher standing in front of a room and imparting insights and guiding discussions.
Professional Learning

Measuring the Impact of Personal Learning

The International Center for Educational Research and Practice offers unique opportunities for real-time collaboration between researchers and practitioners.
New Designs for School

Self Awareness + Belonging = Transformative Culture

If you had an entire year to plan and reset your organization’s culture, how would you reset it? Think short term and long-term viability.
Reimagining Assessment

The Power and Promise of Performance Assessments

​Performance assessments have the power to improve learning, and hold promise for better assessing students’ college and career readiness.
New Designs for School

Connection as a Design Principle for Learning

We want to feel known. We want to belong. This is what I’m thinking about as I watch the student-led revolution that birthed the March for our Lives movement.
Professional Learning

What’s This New Buzz About? Microcredentials in Education

What are microcredentials in a K-12 context, and how they can be used in the education system?