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Learner-Centered

Using Schoolwide Design Sprints to Seed Student-Centered Culture

With a solid process and supportive staff, students can develop the confidence needed to take these skills to be critical thinkers and help solve real-world problems. Read more about how Macon Early College began using the design process as a way to plant the seeds for a more student-centered culture.

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Open Way Learning
Personalized Learning

The 12 Shifts for Student-Centered Hybrid Environments

[…] result of conversations and insights from expert practitioners worldwide, who have not only adapted to an uncertain education climate, but thrived. Each of them have placed deep, student-centered project-based learning experiences at the heart of their work. My hope is that by sharing each of the 12 shifts, along with simple tips for making […]

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hybrid learning changes
Future of Learning

How Schools Can Help Cultivate Learner Identity and Agency

[…] and successfully navigate complex life and learning transitions? Here, we provide an overview of responses from experts in sociology, psychology, special education, educational equity, social justice, and student-centered education. You can access the entirety of the contributions in our Back to School Learner Identity and Agency Guidebook. Dr. Anindya Kundu: Fostering Social and Cultural Capital […]

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Brooklyn LAB
New Pathways

How Design Thinking Is Preparing Young People to Lead

[…] the research or simply observing students who are given these chances to flourish, it’s clear that opportunities to lead are essential to ensuring that schooling is truly student-centered. So how can we give students more opportunities to build these skills and prepare for what’s ahead? Classrooms and schools that have students using design thinking […]

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Startland edu
Competency-Based Education

Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of COVID-19

[…] successful. That’s where personalizing learning and using a mastery-based approach comes in. (There are lots of different definitions of personalizing. I’m referring to the ones that are student-centered and emphasize empowering students to own their education.) It starts with two assumptions. First, we need to empower learners to own and manage their learning. Second, we […]

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Personalized Learning

5 Personalized Learning Strategies for the Online Learner

By: Kyriaki Raouna Over the years, the need for learning to become more student-centered as opposed to teacher-centered has changed the scenery of teaching and learning. The tasteful blend of education and technology (edtech) has already provided affluent opportunities for young people, especially for students who are in school and college or simply those […]

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Learner-Centered

The Students Are Talking, It’s Time We Listen

[…] to act on the data that they see. An increasing number of states require student feedback data (ex. Idaho Student Engagement survey). Transcend’s Conversations with Kids, NGLC’s Student-Centered Evidence Toolkit and programs like 100 Days of Conversation are great ways to allow students to host, lead and share in community conversations about what school […]

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A teacher at Capital City Public Charter School provides feedback on a student’s science poster. (Expanded with AI).
Competency-Based Education

Are You Putting Learners First? Here are 8 Ways to Check Yourself

[…] who are prepared for life after high school, it’s necessary that we make a shift to students-centered practices that ground in anti-oppressive practices, inclusivity and cultural responsiveness. Student-Centered Learning, sometimes referred to as the aforementioned learner-centered education, encompasses the idea that instruction should be shifted to focus on each and every student’s needs. This […]

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