Topic: Student-centered Learning

"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.

What are learner profiles, and how do you get started?

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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What’s the difference between a standard and a competency?

Sometimes competencies and standards are conflated. Competencies made clear and simple!

Laura Hilger
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

KnowledgeWorks works alongside teachers, school district leaders and communities to provide competency-based education implementation support and to assist in the scaling of a personalized, competency-based learning system tailored to each learning community.

Personalized Learning: From Occasional Success Story to System-level Reality

Tools for states and districts interested in fundamentally transforming learning and moving towards student-centered systems.

Sarah Jenkins
Senior Director of Implementation and Evaluation

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Reflecting on Your Values During a Time of Crisis

Remembering what drives you as a teacher, your “why,” is critical for weathering tough times.

Laura Hilger
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

Endless Possibilities: Personal Stories About Education Transformation

The Moment That Changed Perceptions of What Is Possible: Personal Stories of Transformation

Listen to five people share their personal stories about moments that helped them expand their ideas about what is possible in education.

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Read a case study about Marysville School District in Marysville, Ohio, and how they are transforming teaching and learning for more than 5,000 students and 500 teachers and staff.

One Ohio Community’s Experience with District-wide Implementation of Personalized, Competency-based Learning

What it can look like to commit to the success of each learner.

Kate Westrich
Vice President of Marketing and Communications

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