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Human-Centered Learning and Student Agency: “Think Big, Start Small and Act Fast”
Authentic, impactful, goal-oriented learning experiences require ongoing collaboration and guidance from educators.
Topics: Assessment and Accountability
Where Do We Go From Here? Navigating Our Current World of Learning
What can education communities learn from COVID, and what are actionable strategies for education leaders to use? Here are some...
Why You Don’t Want a Return to Normal This School Year
Our children have faced unprecedented disruption in their lives and in their learning. They deserve something better than an awkward...
Hands-on Work and Team Effort: Pandemic Learning at the North Dakota Youth Correctional Center
The pandemic provided an opportunity to try something learner-centered and new – and staff don’t think they’ll ever go back.
Topics: Overcoming Challenges
Evidence of Learning: How States Are Rethinking Instructional Time and Attendance Policies in the COVID-19 Era
How states are rethinking instructional time and attendance policies in the COVID-19 era
Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in North Dakota: What We’re Learning
What we’re learning in North Dakota from our new approach to evaluation
Topics: Impact and Improvement
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
Empowering Youth with Systems Thinking
Explore the ways in which youth use systems thinking tools to see the big picture and address community problems.
Topics: Systems Change
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.
A Need to Evolve: The Impact of Strained Education Systems
What tensions are straining education systems? Explore impacts on learners with disabilities, funding allocation and the educator workforce.
Innovations in Research: How We’re Approaching Evaluation Differently in North Dakota
How we're approaching evaluation of personalized, competency-based learning communities in North Dakota with innovation in research
Topics: Impact and Improvement
Student Feedback and Reflection: Essentials in this Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Classroom
Building opportunities for student feedback into the learning process means students are learning from each other, not just their teacher.
Topics: Assessment and Accountability
Authentic Relationships Wanted: A Human-Centered Approach to Systems Change
Dr. Shelley Zion, Faculty Director of the PEER Lab, share her insights for how to engage in meaningful community engagement.
How Public Schools Can Grow Stronger out of Strained Systems
COVID-19 and systemic racism have impacted and changed school systems. What does this look like and how can policymakers help?
Topics: Education Policy, Future of Learning, Overcoming Challenges, Systems Change
Local Learning Festival Aims to Amplify Youth Voices
Greater Cincinnati Remake Learning Days provides a wide variety of activities, in many cases helping youth recognize and develop voice.
Topics: Future of Learning
Bringing Justice and Equity into Education
Gregg Seaton and Jason Swanson discuss contested power and how education leaders can help rethink systems and stakeholders.
Topics: Education Equity, Future of Learning, Impact and Improvement, Systems Change
Centering Black Voices and Shifting Power: An Interview with the Black Mothers Forum
Janelle Wood from the Black Mothers Forum talks with us about how policy can help empower communities of color and...
Relational Competencies: Building Skills Imperfectly
Dig into relational competencies, one of the four strategies in Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems.
How One Math Teacher is Building Student Ownership in the Classroom
Student reflection, self-checking and conferencing ensure this middle school teacher has what she needs to meet students where they are.
Topics: Assessment and Accountability
Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in North Dakota: What We’re Hoping to Learn
Three years in and we’re working to collect the data and create the insights to shift systems to be more...
Topics: Impact and Improvement
Redefining Instructional Hours to Promote Systemic Innovation
To allow the district to implement new learning-centric strategies effectively Mahtomedi Public Schools needs to remove barriers, including redefining instructional...
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...
A Discussion About Leading the Future of Learning
View a recording of a webinar focused on tensions affecting leadership in education.
We Are the Leaders We Are Looking For
The Leading Change PLC offers educators opportunities to share strategies for advancing change as they work to build sustainable systems.
Topics: Building Capacity