Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
[…] that “None of us is free until we are all free.” Ali has worked as a middle school teacher, university instructor, DE&I consultant, director of curriculum and instruction across more than 30 schools, and director of learning transformation at an international education design lab. Bb Ntsaky serves as the Director of Academics at Brooklyn […]
Always Ready For Learning: Meeting the Rapidly Evolving Needs of Educators Throughout COVID-19
[…] organizations in a large-scale, free coaching network to offer school districts rapid, customized, and sustained guidance on how to successfully shift to remote learning and prepare for instruction in the fall and beyond. This pro-bono, philanthropically-supported initiative works to ensure K-12 school district leaders get urgent and customized guidance to help wherever they are […]
Introducing the Texas Learning Exchange School Operations Guide
[…] opportunities for students, the guide then turns attention to the academic shifts necessary to give students an optimal chance to learn no matter where or how this instructional exchange is occurring. The focus is the learner, not the school, not the teacher, not the curriculum. In the guide, we cover topics such as remote […]
A Question of Trust: The Arcadia Unified Better Together Project
By: Arcadia Unified School District. AUSD shares how a partnership with Altitude Learning and the University of California San Diego began to rigorously examine key levers for transformational change.
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
[…] Pathways When Harmony Public Schools (Harmony) received a Race to the Top grant in 2012, a lot of expectations changed across the system. As student-centered models for instruction took hold, teachers demanded higher quality professional learning experiences and requested more academic leadership from their administration including more collaboration with their colleagues. The competency-based approach […]
Lining Up Career Dreams with Reality
By: Dr. Suzette Lovely. Suzette discusses how to build exposure and aspirations around careers that may not currently exist.
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
[…] initiatives that will affect all in the extended Harmony network, leaders have worked hard to implement what they hear from the field. Burak Yilmaz, Harmony’s Director of Instruction said they prioritize, “…ongoing efforts to collect feedback and input, and when educators see that their input is making a difference, it impacts the consensus building […]
Your School Has Left the Building
By: Steven Hodas. Steven discusses why it’s time to move from institutional silos to community impact.
A Unique Thanksgiving Season: Even More Reasons to Be Grateful for Our Teachers
[…] lessons with social emotional support and conversations to help students prepare for and respond to the challenging circumstances. They have reinvented their approaches to ensure high quality instruction—in their classroom with physical distancing and masks, virtually for students at home, and combinations of both. And they have been ready, at a moment’s notice, to […]
Building Trust through Design Thinking
By: Sabba Quidwai and Devin Vodicka. Recent research by Dr. Quidwai found a critical connection between relational trust, collaboration, and the development of mindsets and skillsets when engaging in design thinking.