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Liberatory Education Today: AfroRithms from the Future
Guest author and contributor to our forecast Lonny Brooks explains how the gamified forecasting tool AfroRithms from the Futures works.
Ohio’s Whole Child Framework
Services to students and families to support child behavioral health through Ohio's Whole Child Framework
Topics: Social Emotional Learning
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
Liberatory Education: Fulfilling Education’s Promises
What do systems look like when they move from equity to liberation? Take a look.
KnowledgeWorks Announces 2022-23 “Leading Change” Community Fellows
KnowledgeWorks has named seven Leading Change Community Fellows for its 2022-23 cohort. Find out who they are.
Julia E. Torres: Four Actionable Tips for an Inclusive Learning Environment
Language arts teacher-librarian Julia E. Torres provides actionable tips for creating inclusive and engaging classrooms.
Capita Futures Toolkit
This toolkit contains instructions, examples and templates to examine current realities, explore possibilities and chart a course forward.
Topics: Future of Learning
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
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
A Liberatory Library: Connecting Through Our Differences
Providing book lists for elementary, middle and high school ages, Julia E. Torres explains why reading books by and about...
Topics: Education Equity
Connecting the Dots: Linking Student-Centered Learning and College and Career Pathways
How student-centered learning and college and career pathways best prepare learners to create a more hopeful future
Topics: Education Policy
Dreaming Into Learning Futures
This publication, created in partnership with the Reinvention Lab and with input from many, explores where education could be headed...
Topics: Future of Learning
State-level Approaches and Strategies for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
Learn more about state-level approaches and strategies for implementing personalized, competency-based learning based on research findings.
Vote for KnowledgeWorks in SXSWedu 2023 Panel Picker
SXSWEdu Panel Picker features a panel from KnowledgeWorks and the Reinvention Lab.
Topics: Future of Learning
Working Toward a Liberatory Education System: Q&A with Laura Hilger
Liberatory education can mean different things to different people. Here’s how one of our teaching and learning directors sees it.
Why – and How – Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Works
A conversation with researchers and district leaders about new research on cross-state implementation of personalized, competency-based learning
Topics: Impact and Improvement
Six Areas Where Policy Is Advancing Student-Centered Learning
Watch a conversation about states passing student-centered education policies from the six areas of interest.
Creating Coalitions To Transform Education
How a network approach to systems change fosters authentic collaboration and meaningful transformations
Five Recommendations for District Leaders Implementing Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
A report gives recommendations for district leaders implementing personalized, competency-based learning based off groundbreaking research.
State Policies to Support Student-Centered Learning
KnowledgeWorks and ECS teamed up for a 50-state student-centered policy scan. Read the joint brief.
Topics: Education Policy
What Grading for Equity Looks Like in This Arizona High School
How one high school is rethinking grades to better reflect what students know and know how to do
Valuing Difference: A Conversation About Liberatory Education
Liberatory education: What is it? Why do we need it?
Five Recommendations for State Leaders Implementing Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
A report gives recommendations for state leaders implementing personalized, competency-based learning based off groundbreaking research.
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.