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Why Schools Need to Change

Top Three Parent Tips for Making the Switch to Personalized Learning

As a teacher, when I found out my school was going to pilot personalized learning for incoming middle schoolers, I knew it would be a good fit for my own kids.
Designing for Equity

Taking K-12 Cultural Responsiveness from Theory into Practice

Can new charter schools provide culturally responsive pedagogy, truly community-driven & serving underserved students? The State of Washington is betting on it.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Gift of Portfolio Defense: A Parent's Perspective

Until I witnessed my own child's 12th grade defense presentation, my rallying cry for portfolio defense was professional, not personal.
Professional Learning

More Than Words: Keeping Your Best Invested in Your School and District

Without leaders investing in time, professional learning, and coaching, our best teachers and most innovative educators may feel their efforts are trivialized.
New Designs for School

Kickstart Readiness that Continues to College & Career

While it may seem light-years away as you watch kindergarteners finger-paint, the future—and their role in it—is swiftly on its way.
Professional Learning

A New Paradigm for PD: The Modern Classrooms Project

Teacher professional development is too often disconnected from our actual classrooms. So we tried something new: teacher-designed PD.
Enabling Change

Competency Without Compromise: Rethinking the High School Transcript

The Mastery Transcript Consortium is redesigning the HS transcript, building an ecosystem in which deeper, personalized, and mastery-based learning can thrive.
Why Schools Need to Change

Creating a Career Superhighway

What if we reimagined our school system as a superhighway that is a network of career development pathways?
Professional Learning

Innovation Pathways: A Personalized Professional Development Approach

To ask that educators create and maintain personalized pathways for students is to require that those same pathways are presented to educators.
Enabling Change

Leading Change in a Personalized Environment: Right from the Start

Every implementation as schools shift to personalized learning is different, but crucial leadership decisions typically fall into these four areas.