Equity & Access

Equity and access follows schools, frameworks and leaders who put equity at the center of what they do to create a level playing field for all students and remove any implicit bias in the curriculum or way that it’s taught. In a time of highlighted inequities, this is the most important work in education.

From Aspiration to Application: Working Examples of Assessment in the Service of Learning
Competency-Based Education

From Aspiration to Application: Working Examples of Assessment in the Service of Learning

Edmund W. Gordon, Eva L. Baker, Howard T. Everson, Eric Tucker

For decades, educators have aspired to transform educational tests and assessments from merely means of evaluating students’ progress into catalysts for learning—a vision championed by Edmund W. Gordon. The third volume in the Handbook of Assessment in the Service of Learning series reflects a shift from aspiration to application.

Teachers collaborating around laptops at a classroom table, engaged in animated professional discussion
Equity & Access

What Happens When We Trust Teachers?

Michelle Blanchet, Guest Author

By: Michelle Blanchet and Darcy Bakkegard Innovation is a common goal in education. But too often, the very people at the center—teachers—are left out of the process. Professional learning often focuses on ensuring that teachers implement top-down initiatives or adapt rigid models and frameworks that rarely reflect the realities of…