Topic: Systems Change

"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

Competency-based Education in Higher Education

C-BEN: Why are K-12 and higher ed shifting toward competency-based education, and how can they align?

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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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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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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 Programs

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A Competency-based Approach to Meaningful, Relevant Education in New York City

How one school is innovating to better serve all learners

Matt Williams
Interim CEO, Executive Vice President and Chief Program Officer

Portrait of Memorie White Mountain, an Indigenous woman with hair pulled back, wearing a tan cardigan and black shirt. Text reads: Q&A with Memorie White Mountain, Executive Director, Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wouŋspe (Defenders of the Water School)

Defenders of the Water School: Education Rooted in Land, Language and Lifeways

The Defenders of the Water School was founded by Indigenous people on Indigenous principles. Learn how the school was created, how it operates and the goals for the future.

Maria Crabtree
Director of Strategic Foresight Projects

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How Kentucky is Listening – and Acting – on Community and Student Voice

Three big ideas are shifting the center of power in education in Kentucky.

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Prioritizing Access, Opportunity and Equity

Q&A with Bill Hite: How steps to detracking districts can lead to increased equity in access and opportunity.

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Building a Portrait of a Nevada Learner from the Community Up

How educators, community members and students are working together to build a vision for the future of teaching and learning in Nevada

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A Different Path to a Diploma

By taking GED tests where they need credit, North Dakota students can earn their high school diploma.

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Accelerating toward what?

Simply adding technologies to education systems does not change them in any fundamental way. It makes them more efficient at perpetuating inequities.

Jason Swanson
Senior Director of Strategic Foresight

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