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Learner-Centered
Avoiding Accidental Harm: Fostering Positive Impact on Students’ Lives
Author Jennifer D. Klein believes it is possible for educators not just to avoid accidental harm, but to teach intentionally toward the needs and identities of every child.
Competency-Based Education
From the State House to the Classroom: How Policymakers Can Help Bring Competency-Based Education Into Reality
Wyoming’s big shift towards competency-based education (CBE) isn’t just a policy milestone - it’s an opportunity to examine partnership-based approaches to implementing CBE.
Uncategorized
Purpose and Process to Ignite Intentional Conversations
Intentional relationships fuel intentional conversations - learn how to manifest them in your classroom.
Place Based Education
Video Insights – Start the School Year Strong
Eden Park Elementary School teachers foster a strong start to the school year, emphasizing student involvement in creating shared expectations and a community-focused learning environment.
EdTech
Stop Playing: Your Campus Needs an Esports Program
Through gaming, students gain durable skills (as defined by America Succeeds) which are high demand skills that allow youth to demonstrate their knowledge and stretch their character.
EdTech
AI in Conservation: How Would this Change Our Interactions with Wildlife?
Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide a sharper edge to the conservation data collection and analysis tool. Student Mary Margaret Perkins shares more about her recent experience to Kenya.
EdTech
Six Steps to Build AI Accountability
Why pay attention to Generative AI at all? Because, in the right context and with the right guardrails, it may bring productivity gains for teachers, and some level of personalized learning for students.
Place Based Education
Addressing the Reluctancy to Transform Learning Environments
Learning Communities offer a more collaborative and holistically supportive environment for kids and adults alike. Nathan Strenge shares more in their latest post.
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.
Personalized Learning
Not Your Typical Back-to-School Days at Learner-Centered Sites
Learner-centered leaders recognize the need to help young people lean into their personal development as a critical part of their learning and do so in community with the peers and adults in their environments.