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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...
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Community Partnerships, Vision and Culture
A Shared Vision
A shared vision is a critical first step for competency design.
Topics: Vision and Culture
Personalized, competency-based learning isn’t about us. It’s about our learners.
Supporting students isn’t an issue of partisan politics – it’s a necessity.
Topics: Vision and Culture
Transforming for Tomorrow: A State Policymaker’s Guide for Supporting Student-Centered Education Systems
This guide is designed to help a range of state policymakers identify initial steps to support schools and districts wanting...
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Education Policy, Vision and Culture
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
Portrait of a Graduate: A North Star for Teaching and Learning in Utah
Utah's portrait of a graduate guides their transformation process. Hear about it from the Utah State Board of Education's chief...
Educating Kentucky: Innovation, One Step at a Time
Learn the steps Kentucky took to innovate their system into one that is futures-oriented, collaborative and inclusive.
What We Measure Matters
Student data is about more than just achievement. We need to capture evidence of meaningful, relevant learning experiences, too.
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.
More Than a Word
How we’re changing the way we work to center the needs, interests and passions of each student.
Topics: Education Equity, Impact and Improvement, Systems Change, Vision and Culture
Students Want Meaningful, Personalized Learning – and Pennsylvania Educators Do, Too
How listening to students – and acting on what they hear – is shaping teaching and learning in Pennsylvania
Students Sparking Change
A student-led initiative to remove an Indigenous mascot highlights one district’s journey to becoming more student-centered.
Teachers Need Social-Emotional Support, Too: COVID-19 and Educator Trauma
Examples of how some states and districts are supporting teachers – and why it’s important.
Growing Culture through Intentional Celebrations
Purposeful recognition doesn’t just impact individuals – it can help change the system.
Topics: Vision and Culture
Developing a Learner’s Mindset in Third Grade
How a mindset shift is helping students build problem-solving and risk-taking skills – even in the middle of a pandemic
Topics: Vision and Culture
Where Human-Centered Learning and Personalized Learning Intersect
Human-centered learning requires that we consider the individual – their needs, interests and lived experiences – when designing for education.
Relational Competencies: Building Skills Imperfectly
Dig into relational competencies, one of the four strategies in Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems.
Learning as a Lifelong Personal Practice
As she models her own lifelong and lifewide learning, Katherine Prince digs into an essential vision element from Envisioning Human-Centered...
Re-envisioning Education to Be Human-Centered
Podcast explores a human-centered vision for education.
Connecting on a Human Level Starts with a Smile
Helping students feel valued and like they belong can start with an act as small as a smile.
We Need Human-Centered Learning Systems
Katherine Prince introduces Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems - how it came about, why it's needed and what's in it.
Getting It Right: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace
How we engage with diversity, equity and inclusion ensure that these concepts are more than just buzzwords – they’re part...
Topics: Vision and Culture
Students at the Center of Learning: A Video Discussion About Human-Centered Learning
How do we make a human-centered learning system a reality? We introduce the vision and strategies in a webinar.