Topic: Student-centered Learning

Youth Participatory Action Research: A Guidebook and Curriculum

This guidebook and curriculum is designed to help teachers, administrators and community leaders plan, implement and refine a yearlong youth participatory action research course

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Personalized, competency-based learning needs student-centered classroom management. Here’s why.

Use this list to guide practices in your school or classroom.

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Three Mindset Shifts for Successful Youth-Adult Partnerships

There are several factors to consider in youth-adult partnerships, including mindset shifts. Consider these three.

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Three Strategies for Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships

For effective youth-adult partnerships, adult leaders, policymakers and other decision makers must consider these three strategies.

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Improvements to the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority give states a chance to design improved student-centered assessment systems.

Turning Point on Assessment Innovation?

Improvements to the IADA give states a chance to design improved student-centered assessment systems.

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." - Maya Angelou

Three Ways to Start Making Your Classroom Student-Centered

Here are three practices teachers can implement in the classroom to help make learning more student-centered.

Robin Kanaan
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

Understanding students through learner profiles can help teachers better design classes and help learners develop agency.

Learner Profiles

Learner profiles can help teachers in course design and students to develop agency.

Robin Kanaan
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

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Shifting Mindsets in Nevada

What the 2024 Nevada Teacher of the Year has to say about student voice, project-based learning and the power of the network

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KnowledgeWorks coaches and teachers respond to common misconceptions about teaching in a competency-based education environment.

Competency-Based Education in Action: How does it work in a classroom?

Addressing common questions and misconceptions about teaching in a personalized, competency-based education environment

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Understanding that agency is a critical disposition if they want their students to be drivers of their own learning, teachers developed experiences to solicit student voice in establishing classroom rules.

10 Ways to Encourage Student Voice

Ten ways to encourage, activate and support student voice

Sean Andres
Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications

Strong school district leadership requites a certain set of skills. We believe these seven competencies are critical for a school superintendent to possess.

Seven Essential Competencies for Strong District Leadership

Strong school district leadership requites a certain set of skills. We believe these seven competencies are critical for a school superintendent to possess.

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Coming Together in Shared Values from 4,000 Miles Away

School systems in Hawai'i and Wisconsin meet to learn from each other.

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