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In today’s education landscape, teachers are more important than ever. That’s just one of many points KnowledgeWorks Director of State...

How do you track down the evil scientist who infected you with a virus that occasionally turns you into a...

After many long months of reading ESSA state plans and sharing our personalized learning finds, the KnowledgeWorks policy team decided...

Emotional regulation, deep self-knowledge and empathy and perspective-taking were key to Rolando Fernando's experience as immigrant, student and professional.

Asking educators to imagine the world of 2040 seems like a stretch, but when you take a moment to think...

Over the course of this blogging series, KnowledgeWorks’ policy team has discussed the prominent trends and leading states in maximizing...

Enthusiasm around the passage of Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) focused on a new opportunity to create education plans tailored...

Have you ever watched the scene in The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon uses a flow chart for how to...

Guest post by Tyler Barnett As students pour back into schoolhouses around the country for yet another year of learning,...

Guest post by Mary Tighe If you want to have an interesting conversation about “readiness” and the workforce, Will Geiger...

Guest post by Tyler Barnett With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, the federal government...

Communicating effectively to people throughout your school district presents several challenges. What’s your message, who needs to hear what and,...

Conversations about events like the one in Charlottesville are critical. Here are some resources for talking with your students and...

Last week I explored some trends in how states are approaching ESSA’s School Support and Improvement provisions. The trends I...

Savannah VanGotum was 1 of 3 student winners of the Imagine FutureEd™ student design competition, which had students envision the...

Guest post by Mary Tighe States are using flexibility in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to embrace and advance...

More than a year and a half after it's launch, Education Week is wondering: “What the Heck Happened to ESSA’s...

If we want to improve schools and communities, we need to first meet students where they are. This isn’t a...

Guest post by Mary Tighe KnowledgeWorks is hoping to present at SXSWedu and we’d like your help. Frankly, we’d like...

Lindsey Bowen, a KnowledgeWorks intern, shares her own story with personalized learning. "To me, personalized learning means discovery."

KnowledgeWorks Senior Director of National Policy shares examples of states advance student-centered concepts in their accountability systems under ESSA.

The Every Student Succeeds Act’s (ESSA) gift of broad flexibility for states to design accountability systems that align to their...