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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.
Lessons for Sustainable Policy Change
New book offers strategies relevant to today’s political landscape.
Topics: Education Policy
Tech Futures for Liberating Learners
Take into account these key considerations to help ensure that education technologies are designed and deployed to liberate learners.
Topics: Future of Learning
Prioritizing Access, Opportunity and Equity
Q&A with Bill Hite: How steps to detracking districts can lead to increased equity in access and opportunity.
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.
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...
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Community Partnerships, Vision and Culture
A Different Path to a Diploma
By taking GED tests where they need credit, North Dakota students can earn their high school diploma.
Accelerating toward what?
Simply adding technologies to education systems does not change them in any fundamental way. It makes them more efficient at...
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.
Organizing Competencies for a Learning Community
Competencies should be unpacked into a continuum that details how learners will progress toward mastery of the competency.
Aligning Competencies with Your Portrait of a Learner
Having a focused set of broad competencies clearly articulates what a learning community values most.
A Shared Vision
A shared vision is a critical first step for competency design.
Topics: Vision and Culture
What is a competency?
How we we define this core element of a personalized, competency-based learning approach to education?
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...
Topics: Systems Change
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.
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
Hope Yet: Centering Youth Voice in Climate Disruption
Youth are leading the fight against the climate crisis. How can educators help them?
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...
Topics: Education Equity
Approaching Whole Child Education from an Equity Perspective
Ensuring diversity and equity in schools and classrooms
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
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.
Caring for Student Health as an Educational Strategy
Health care represents an important component of student care.
Topics: Education Equity, Overcoming Challenges, Social Emotional Learning
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
Advancing Education Innovation Through Place-Based Strategies
Place-based strategies lead to greater engagement of stakeholders and greater ownership of the work.