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Equity & Access
How Schools Can Promote Vaccination and Address Hesitancy: A 10-Point Plan that Puts Equity First
Public schools can play a critical role in helping the United States achieve herd immunity against COVID-19. Find out more in this comprehensive 10 point plan.
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Leadership
From Last Chance to First Choice: Alternative Schools That Show the Way Forward
By: T. Vander Ark & R. Midles. Tom and Rebecca share seven types of schools that provide a learner-centered alternative to traditional high schools.
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Difference Making
Learner-Centered and Project-Based Middle Schools
Middle schools across the country are changing the world for better through meaningful project-based learning.
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Future of Learning
To Reopen, America Needs Laboratory Schools
Eric and Erin discuss how laboratory schools are, and will continue to be, necessary to research and develop a more equitable future for all learners.
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Future of Learning
Designing Schools for Shared Use: A Pandemic Silver Lining
[…] now in its third edition. Follow Randy on Twitter at @randyfielding. Senior Designer at Fielding International, Cierra Mantz is a registered architect with a Masters in Educational Leadership and Societal Change. Through her work, she seeks to champion change within education through innovative design, research, and grassroots community engagement. Senior Learning Designer at Fielding […]
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Future of Learning
What’s the Right High School Size and Structure?
[…] tracked with affluent white students in a college-bound course sequence and underserved students of color in career courses. 2. Big schools have a student-set culture. Without heroic leadership, big school cultures are a mixture of cliques that exclude many and don’t develop positive dispositions. 3. Big schools with a catalog of choices reduce the […]
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Future of Learning
School Sustainability Is About More Than Just Keeping the Doors Open
[…] XQ schools we have distinguished five components of sustainability that we view as crucial for sustaining the journey of an innovative school towards its vision: fiscal, operational, academic, leadership, and extended impact. Fiscal. This is what most people think of when they think of “sustainability.” And indeed, multi-year budget planning, transparency, and accounting are all of […]
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Getting Through
Meeting the Challenge of Reopening: How Laboratory School Communities Can Power Human-Centered Design and Inclusive Innovation
Our country must deepen its investment in laboratory schools and their approaches to make research based, effective change.
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Future of Learning
Eight Ways New Schools Innovate
With the rapid global shift to hybrid and remote learning, there is a renewed interest in new school models. Highlighted are eight ways schools are innovating.
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Getting Through
How Can Schools Grow from Coronavirus?
By: Ross Wehner and Dr. Kirk Wheeler. There are many silver linings to this unplanned shift to remote teaching and learning. Schools and teachers are seizing the opportunity to adopt new and improved practices around preparation, communication, engagement and personalization.
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