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Nothing About Us, Without Us: How Nevada is Engaging Students

What matters to Nevada’s students is part of the state’s strategy for transforming education.

Published: March 28, 2023
Topics: Education Equity, Vision and Culture
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Lessons for Sustainable Policy Change

New book offers strategies relevant to today’s political landscape.

Published: March 21, 2023
Topics: Education Policy
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Tech Futures for Liberating Learners

Take into account these key considerations to help ensure that education technologies are designed and deployed to liberate learners.

Published: March 14, 2023
Topics: Future of Learning
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Prioritizing Access, Opportunity and Equity

Q&A with Bill Hite: How steps to detracking districts can lead to increased equity in access and opportunity.

Published: March 7, 2023
Topics: Education Equity, Systems Change
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Personalizing Learning for Students with Disabilities by Increasing Access to College in High School Courses

A joint report considers issues Colorado must address to improve concurrent enrollment access and success for students with disabilities.

Published: February 16, 2023
Topics: Early College High School, Education Policy
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Building a Portrait of a Nevada Learner from the Community Up

How educators, community members and students are working together to build a vision for the future of teaching and learning...

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A Different Path to a Diploma

By taking GED tests where they need credit, North Dakota students can earn their high school diploma.

Published: January 25, 2023
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Community Partnerships
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Accelerating toward what?

Simply adding technologies to education systems does not change them in any fundamental way. It makes them more efficient at...

Published: January 18, 2023
Topics: Education Equity, Future of Learning, Systems Change
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Ensuring Quality and Refinement of the Learning

Learn strategies for ensuring your community builds ownership and accountability for the implementation of the competency learning continuum.

Published: January 10, 2023
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Organizing Competencies for a Learning Community

Competencies should be unpacked into a continuum that details how learners will progress toward mastery of the competency.

Published: January 10, 2023
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Aligning Competencies with Your Portrait of a Learner

Having a focused set of broad competencies clearly articulates what a learning community values most.

Published: January 10, 2023
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A Shared Vision

A shared vision is a critical first step for competency design.

Published: January 10, 2023
Topics: Vision and Culture
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What is a competency?

How we we define this core element of a personalized, competency-based learning approach to education?

Published: January 10, 2023
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Thinking Outside the Box for Learning

While state and district leaders must be at the forefront of systemic change in education, educators can’t do this work...

Published: January 4, 2023
Topics: Systems Change
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Meet the Faces of IMPACT: Learning Edition

Meet the characters from IMPACT: Learning Edition, a game designed to spark conversations about the future of learning.

Published: December 19, 2022
Topics: Future of Learning
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A Year for Equity, Assessment and Accountability

This year equity, assessment and accountability were at the top of mind for our audience. Check out the list to...

Published: December 15, 2022
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Education Equity
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Hope Yet: Centering Youth Voice in Climate Disruption

Youth are leading the fight against the climate crisis. How can educators help them?

Published: December 14, 2022
Topics: Future of Learning
Racial Literacy for Personalized Learning Advocacy

Educators ready to interrupt systemic racism can apply now for a three-month workshop to learn strategies for creating classrooms of...

Published: December 12, 2022
Topics: Education Equity
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Approaching Whole Child Education from an Equity Perspective

Ensuring diversity and equity in schools and classrooms

Published: December 12, 2022
Topics: Education Equity, Social Emotional Learning
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Uneven Changes in Education Over the Past Decade

The wave of disintermediation that had been restructuring many sectors ended up affecting education less deeply than we had thought...

Published: December 9, 2022
Topics: Future of Learning
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What Happens When Districts Learn from Each Other

Every system, like every learner, is an individual. And they can learn a lot from each other.

Published: December 7, 2022
Topics: Building Capacity, Community Partnerships
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Caring for Student Health as an Educational Strategy

Health care represents an important component of student care.

Published: December 5, 2022
Topics: Education Equity, Overcoming Challenges, Social Emotional Learning
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Looking for a Learning Landscape, 10 Years On

Though still uncommon in the US, learning landscapes are gaining traction, especially during COVID. But the momentum is lost when...

Published: December 1, 2022
Topics: Future of Learning
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Advancing Education Innovation Through Place-Based Strategies

Place-based strategies lead to greater engagement of stakeholders and greater ownership of the work.

Published: November 30, 2022
Topics: Education Policy, Systems Change