Place Based Education

Creating Connections Across Slate Valley for the Common Good

By: Casey O’Meara. The Slate Valley Unified Union School District applies community-focused experiential teaching and facilitation methods to better support deeper learning for its students.

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Difference Making

Schools Alive With Possibility

[…] skills, which is made possible through the learner’s active engagement in experiences they typically do not encounter in today’s schools,” explains AASA’s Learning 2025 report. Because they promote deeper integrated learning, the trends of connected learning and contribution complicate the trends of credentialed learning–and that’s a good tension. It is challenging to make mastery judgements […]

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Leadership

Can’t Miss Education Conferences in 2024

[…] education and professional organizations, entrepreneurs, faculty from higher education organizations, students, parents, and community leaders—in service of addressing complex problems and issues of inequity in educational outcomes. Deeper Learning Conference March 26-28 2024; San Diego, CA Deeper learners from around the world gathered for this beautiful reminder of why educators do this work, and of […]

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Place Based Education

A Spatial Paradigm for Thriving Learners

[…] But, school safety that doesn’t consider the holistic health and well-being of the individuals in the environment simply isn’t good enough for our students and teachers. With our deeper understanding of how trauma impacts learning, the ongoing reality of youth mental challenges, and teacher burnout, it’s never been more important to create holistically safe school […]

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Equity & Access

Getting Deep at Deeper Learning

Conferences must center learners and that's exactly what Deeper Learning did recently in San Diego. Victoria Andrews shares more in her latest post.

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Future of Learning

Our Learning Future from A to Z

Schools and organizations are human systems, filled with opportunities and yet there is a profound difference between building from a foundation of schooling and building from a foundation of learning.

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