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Get to Know Our New CEO and President Bill Hite
Bill Hite’s professional experience includes serving at every level – teacher, principal, central office administrator and superintendent.
Topics: 101
Capturing and Communicating Learning Requires More Than Time-Based Measures
Learn how a mastery-based transcript meets the needs of future-focused teaching and learning and how we can implement it.
How I’m Using Imagining Liberatory Education Futures
A futurist walks us through how she works with our forecast Imagining Liberatory Education Futures and applies it locally.
Topics: 101, Community Partnerships, Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
A Conversation About a Liberatory Future of Learning
Forecast authors walk through KnowledgeWorks forecast on the future of learning.
What is liberatory education?
What is liberatory education? Let's break it down with the work of Zaretta Hammond and Rapheal Randall.
What Does Student Learning Look Like in Your Classroom?
How one Utah teacher sees that technology shouldn’t be center stage in teaching and learning; rather, the focus should be...
From Preschool to Postsecondary
Learn about the educator collaboration and goals behind Utah's alignment of competencies and their Portrait of a Graduate.
Go-to Instructional Strategies for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
A regular review of instructional strategies can serve as a gut-check and highlight areas of excellence and opportunities to grow.
Topics: 101
One District Shares Their Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Journey
This video showcases a South Carolina district’s work to ensure each student gets what they need to achieve at the...
Relationships Matter – For More Reasons Than You Think
Getting to know students means getting to know how they learn – and adapting instruction to include what you’ve learned.
IMPACT: Learning Edition
IMPACT: Learning Edition is a board game that uses futures thinking to help you imagine and think critically about changes...
Educator Development is Worth Paying Attention To: New Resource and Customizable Toolkit to Help
Doing things differently in education is no longer optional, and this new resource can help school leaders and teachers.
Topics: 101, Assessment and Accountability, Building Capacity, Education Equity, Systems Change
Advocating for Personalized, Competency-Based Education: Social Media
As part of our advocacy toolkit, learn strategies for using social media in advocating for personalized, competency-based learning.
Befriending Uncertainty: Tools for Thinking and Collaborating
Introducing two tools for thinking about and collaborating to build education futures
Futures Triangle: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
The Futures Triangle helps teams take history into account when examining the present and creating a common desired future together....
Observing Interconnections: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
One of the Futures Studies tools everyone can use to analyze issues at the systems level is a Connection Circle....
Communicating the Future: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
Katherine Prince and Jason Swanson chat about the tools and resources needed to frame and prepare for change and why...
10 Drivers of Engagement You Can Use Right Now
Research confirms that most students tend to respond positively to these 10 core drivers of engagement.
Topics: 101, Education Equity, Overcoming Challenges, Social Emotional Learning
Facing Uncertainty: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
How does the future of learning look when faced with uncertainties presented by COVID-19? Katie King and Anne Olson discuss.
Why Giving Learners Choices is an Important Part of Student Engagement
Learn why offering students choices is an important part of creating a student-centered classroom.
Topics: 101
Making Sense of Learning Pathways
Guest writer Kristen Logan provides Learning Pathways guidance in using the South Carolina Framework for Personalized Learning in the classroom.
Talking About Personalized Learning and the Future of Learning
Virgel Hammonds joined Geoffrey Riley on Jefferson Public Radio to discuss personalized learning.
Topics: 101
Personalized Professional Development for Teachers an Integral Part of Personalizing Learning in Lexington, South Carolina
At White Knoll High School in South Carolina, professional development for teachers is personalized, which is helping them personalize learning...
Personal Learner Profiles Build Student Agency, Teacher Capacity
Learner profiles are a powerful tool for teachers to understand their students.