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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 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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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.

Published: October 11, 2022
Topics: Vision and Culture
Publication
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...

Published: September 12, 2022
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Education Policy, Vision and Culture
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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.

Published: June 21, 2022
Topics: 101, Community Partnerships, Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
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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...

Published: May 31, 2022
Topics: Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
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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.

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What We Measure Matters

Student data is about more than just achievement. We need to capture evidence of meaningful, relevant learning experiences, too.

Published: April 14, 2022
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Vision and Culture
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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...

Published: March 14, 2022
Topics: 101, Vision and Culture
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From Preschool to Postsecondary

Learn about the educator collaboration and goals behind Utah's alignment of competencies and their Portrait of a Graduate.

Published: February 15, 2022
Topics: 101, Vision and Culture
Article
More Than a Word

How we’re changing the way we work to center the needs, interests and passions of each student.

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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

Published: December 8, 2021
Topics: Community Partnerships, Education Policy, Vision and Culture
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Students Sparking Change

A student-led initiative to remove an Indigenous mascot highlights one district’s journey to becoming more student-centered.

Published: November 11, 2021
Topics: Community Partnerships, Vision and Culture
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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.

Published: October 19, 2021
Topics: Social Emotional Learning, Vision and Culture
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Growing Culture through Intentional Celebrations

Purposeful recognition doesn’t just impact individuals – it can help change the system.

Published: August 26, 2021
Topics: Vision and Culture
Article
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

Published: June 16, 2021
Topics: Vision and Culture
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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.

Published: June 3, 2021
Topics: Systems Change, Vision and Culture
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Relational Competencies: Building Skills Imperfectly

Dig into relational competencies, one of the four strategies in Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems.

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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...

Published: April 13, 2021
Topics: Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
Article
Re-envisioning Education to Be Human-Centered

Podcast explores a human-centered vision for education.

Published: March 30, 2021
Topics: Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
Article
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.

Published: February 23, 2021
Topics: Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
Article
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.

Published: February 2, 2021
Topics: Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
Article
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...

Published: January 29, 2021
Topics: Vision and Culture
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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.

Published: January 26, 2021
Topics: Future of Learning, Vision and Culture