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There's Value in Infusing the Arts Into Personalized Learning
Arts educators and academic-content teachers assembled to authentically integrate the arts into a personalized learning academic program for a new school in Chicago. → Read More
9 Things You Can Do to Support Student Agency With Formative Assessment
Teachers and students from Arizona describe the three stages they went through to build a classroom culture for formative assessment. → Read More
What Happened When My School Started to Dismantle White Supremacy Culture
The work of exploring White Supremacy Culture gave the staff at Visitacion Valley Middle School a new framework to define its North Star: being an anti-racist school. → Read More
How Language Can Supercharge the Instructional Core
Vista Unified teachers and University of California researchers collaborated to study how to deepen learning by transforming classroom interactions through language, our guest bloggers say. → Read More
Shifting to Skill-Focused Graduation Requirements
Students at the Workshop School in the Philadelphia district will earn credits and grades in Creative Know How, Habits of Success, and Wayfinding skills starting next year. → Read More
Making Learning Public: Two Practices for Engaging and Empowering All Students
Using both communal showcases of learning and more personalized sharing with families during student-led conferences, students at Two Rivers Public Charter School are more deeply engaged as leaders of their own education. → Read More
What New Research Can Teach Schools Looking to Put Personalized Learning Into Practice
A Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative study of personalized learning in Chicago unpacks how schools can successfully implement personalized learning, highlighting four common practices. → Read More
Oakland's Graduate Profile: A Spotlight on What Matters Most
A graduate profile can help build coherence for a school district by focusing instruction on what truly matters. To create its profile, Oakland Unified listened to students, alumni, and teachers and is now aligning resources toward the vision it sets. → Read More
Transforming Schools Through Whole-Child, Hands-On, Community-Based Education
This Baltimore school has relied on hands-on, culturally relevant learning, true community and family engagement, and lots of fun to transform itself and better serve each child. → Read More
Coaching From Within: A Hybrid Model of Teachers Coaching Teachers
Teachers who take on instructional-coaching responsibilities at Distinctive Schools deeply understand the next generation learning model and can better support other teachers in strengthening their craft. → Read More
Next Gen Learning Requires Next Gen Change Management
Mission Vista High School in Vista, Calif., empowers educators to own and lead the transformation of student learning. → Read More
How Might We Foster More Engaging Student-Learning Opportunities? Industry Partnerships
For the past decade, the St. Vrain Valley school district has fostered strong partnerships between industry and education to advance learning environments, the future workforce, and its community. → Read More
How Great Teachers Are Thinking Outside the Classroom to Help Students Learn
This Teacher Appreciation Week, stories of creative ways that teachers go beyond the traditional framework of schooling to meet the needs of the students in their class. → Read More
Student Experience: The Key to Deepening Student Learning
This past year, a group of D.C. charter and district teachers came together to create rubrics, performance assessments, and instructional design to develop students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills. → Read More
It's a Tough Time for Teachers. Here's Why I'm Joining the Profession.
As an African-American man who is determined to shape young lives and lift up my community, I can't think of a more powerful job. → Read More
Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments: Lessons From Hawaiian-Focused Charter Schools
Students at Hawaiian-Focused Charter Schools complete culturally relevant capstone projects at key junctures in their education journey to demonstrate their learning and growth. → Read More
Friendship: A Sign of High-Performing Schools?
What is the most important way to measure staff culture in a school? → Read More
Hacking the Boston Public Schools' Innovation Incubator
The planning team of the district's Innovation Incubator applied the same hacking mindset taught in the professional-development program to improve the program itself. → Read More
Using Community Ideas to Shape the Vision for a Career Superhighway
Vista Unified is using the design-thinking process with community representatives to re-envision career development in the region. → Read More
Culturally Responsive Assessment Practices Through Nā Hopena Aʻo (HĀ)
The Hawai'i education department's Office of Hawaiian Education is piloting a proficiency-based assessment model that is culturally responsive and place-based. → Read More