Future of Learning

To Reopen, America Needs Laboratory Schools

[…] permanent online learning option for the next 18 to 24 months (even if that online option is never utilized). “Given the range of scenarios education systems are preparing for, schools could be standing up brick and mortar as well as virtual academic programs, to be prepared to transition seamlessly between the two as realities […]

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New Pathways

How Design Thinking Is Preparing Young People to Lead

[…] means to empower youth voices, and their overall experience in the Student Voice Working Group. (Dave Simmons Photography) It’s imperative we stop and ask, “are our schools preparing students to address these issues?” It’s painfully obvious that the answer for many schools and classrooms is, “no.” The typical model for schooling (one that hasn’t […]

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Getting Through

Processes and Principles for Public Schools Navigating Uncertainty and Adapting to Change

[…] Launches Flagship Site, Shares Personas Educators Can Use to Understand Students’ Lived Experience During COVID-19 How We Move Forward: Practicing Three Inclusive, Anti-Racist Mindsets for Reopening Schools Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Cor Preparing for a Healthy and Safe Return to School: Public School Facilities Planning in the Era […]

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Future of Learning

Ed Leaders: Your Path Out of COVID to a Radically Better Future Is Hiding in Plain Sight

[…] she said. “These are all from our district’s graduate profile. These attributes are more than just a poster, they are how we live. From the district to principals to teachers to the kids—it is all a constant, at every level.” We could not sum up the main headline of this research any better than […]

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Future of Learning

How Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Reduced Their Failure Rate by over 60%

[…] reports forecasting these student failures and knew that continuing with the status quo wasn’t an option. Working with Wodecki, the two gathered a group of early adopter principals and teachers to begin drafting a strategy to improve chances for student success. “This is one area where we have tangible results — this is tangible […]

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Learner-Centered

The Cognitive Age: Building Brains that Learn Better

[…] training to exploit it?” In other words, if we don’t know what the jobs of the future will be, the role of education has to change from preparing students for a knowable future to preparing them for an unknowable future in which they will have to continually learn and adapt. The late Peter Kline […]

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