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Education Front and Center: How to Activate Learning Ecosystems
We’ve always known that communities have the wisdom and skills to teach their children. The question is, how do you activate this learning ecosystem?
What Can Decentralized Organizations Accomplish in Education?
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are paving the way to change how learning operates.
Whose Accountability System is this Anyway? Kentucky’s Journey Toward Shared Ownership of Assessment and Accountability Systems
Kentucky is one of the proud recipients of this year’s Competitive Grant for State Assessment (CGSA) awards from the US Department of Education. One of the key challenges of the current assessment and accountability system - the lack of coherence between the demands of the state and what local communities value.
Strong Start for Michigan’s Future of Learning Council
The Future of Learning Council (FLC), a cohort of 40 unique school districts and learning organizations, has banded together around a single mission: to shape the future of learning in Michigan.
How Deep is Their Learning?
Deeper learning isn’t found within the practice of project-based instruction, personalized instruction or competency-based instruction but how the learner applies that instruction.
Tech Fuels Student Access to Mentorships – Especially for Students of Color
Research shows that mentors are particularly impactful in opening traditionally closed professional doors for young people with disabilities, youth of color, and youth identifying as female, particularly in STEM fields.
What is Culturally Responsive CTE?
Rather than responding to the culture around them, career and technical education courses should prepare students to proactively embrace the diverse perspectives they’re likely to encounter in the professional world.
The Decomposition of School and Regeneration of Learning
Decomposition happens everywhere there is life—in our bodies (digestion), in our soil (the living rhizosphere), in our food (meat that smells funky or bread that’s gone green), and in our systems.
5 Strategies for a Successful Start to the School Year
Here are five AVID strategies that can help you ensure a successful start to the school year for students and educators on your campus.
The Equity Continuum: Cultivating an Equity Mindset in Classroom Global Partnerships
Inequitable global partnerships in the classroom lead to adults who think in inequitable terms about their relationship with the world. How might we change the root problem?