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The Learners Are Wondering When We Will Get Together
Sustainable change at the systems level isn’t possible unless we’re participating meaningfully as a group.
Topics: Systems Change
Finding Your Path: A Navigation Tool for Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
Scale personalized, competency-based learning with Finding Your Path: A Navigation Toolkit.
Reflecting on Your Values During a Time of Crisis
Remembering what drives you as a teacher, your “why,” is critical for weathering tough times.
Equity and Access to Reading in Distance Learning
How are KnowledgeWorks learning communities providing access to books and encouraging a healthy relationship to reading during COVID-19?
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Education Equity, Overcoming Challenges, Systems Change
Kindness Goes a Long Way in Distance Learning
We're celebrating the KnowledgeWorks learning communities by sharing positive stories of incorporating SEL, positivity and community.
Should K-12 Education Do More Than Prepare for College and Career?
What is the purpose of K-12 education? Maybe it depends on the student, or the needs of their family or...
Topics: Vision and Culture
Meeting Kids Where They Are Through Outdoor Education
There are community partners, including parks and their staff, available to help us take learning out of the classroom.
We’s Make Better Me’s: Moving from Teacher-Centered to Student-Centered Teaching and Learning
You can’t be student-centered when acting in isolation; instead, we must work at becoming student-centered as a system. We is...
Teaching and Learning Needs Strong Teamwork
To build a system of personalized, competency-based learning requires a shared vision, values and common frameworks. And it starts with...
Personalizing Learning is Humanizing Learning
There isn’t a systemic personalized system out there that doesn’t have a strong culture grounded in relationships.
Topics: Education Equity
If You Aren’t Celebrating Growth, Are You Growing?
If we don’t celebrate in front of and with our learners, who will?
The Key Components of an Advisory System
Topics: Social Emotional Learning
Ask, Ask and Ask Again: Practicing Stakeholder Voice in Kenowa Hills Public Schools
Topics: Vision and Culture
Kenowa Hills Recognized as a Leader in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
Why are Standard Operating Procedures a Necessary Foundation for Positive School Culture?
Have you ever watched the scene in The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon uses a flow chart for how to...
More Than 500 Educators Gathered to Innovate, Collaborate and Inspire at Second Annual Elevate Summit
Mesa County Valley District 51’s 2nd annual Elevate Summit was a learning community of more than 500 educators focused on...
Using Data Walls to Increase Transparency in Competency Environments
The Early Childhood Center of Kenowa Hills is using data walls to increase transparency, a key piece to building a...
Personalized Learning is Possible No Matter What Age
Through personalized learning, we can hold our students to high standards and successfully engage them in learning. No matter what...
Kenowa Hills Public School District: Providing Student Choice for Flexible Learning Spaces to Impact Learning
How might we nurture an environment where everyone has the space to thrive with learning? What does that suggest for...
The Invisible Backpack that Poverty Brings to the Classroom
How does poverty impact students? At a recent gathering of education leaders, Amy Wood, Director of Education Programs for Marion...
Topics: Early College High School
127 Ways to Learn About the Kenowa Hills Public School District
Laura Hilger learned about the Kenowa Hills School District in 127 steps, when she visited classrooms to learn more about...
Education Inspired: Personalizing learning in Kenowa Hills, Michigan
Kenowa Hills Public Schools’ vision towards personal mastery and competency-based education is amplified through their STEM Academy.