Agency and Co-Authoring Thriving in Colorado Schools
Over the last few months, we’ve been fortunate to accompany school leaders to some outstanding Colorado schools that exemplify new learning models that lead to new pathways.
Getting Clearer: Student Access
There are key inequities in student access that need to be addressed across the country to support improvement in learning experiences and outcomes.
Design Integrated Learning Pathways to Realize Your Portrait of a Graduate
Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: Becoming Your Portrait of a Graduate shares a systematic approach to integration of a PoG.
The Increasing Role of Artificial Intelligence in Our Lives
[…] artificial intelligence will play over the next few months as we hopefully get back to more of a normal life experience and can engage in work and learning but also in leisure activities. What can we learn from the recent uptick in AI information and how can it help us in the future? Recent […]
Telling Our Stories: Connecting Globally
[…] vital skills for the future. Looking at the essential skills like communication, collaboration, problem solving, and creativity for a start, what are my options for designing effective learning experiences that will help students to develop in these areas? What are some interesting and more engaging ways that I can promote student choice and voice […]
ISTE Goes Virtual: A Week of Powerful Learning
[…] of the learning opportunities in the virtual space. This year, the conference included thousands of sessions with hundreds of options each day on topics such as assessment, blended and online learning, digital citizenship, emerging technologies, equity and inclusion, social-emotional learning, data privacy and cybersecurity, and more. There were some great topics and events to look […]
Students with Disabilities Deserve LEGIT Solutions: Lightweight Evidence-Gathering Instruments and Tools
Young people with learning and attention issues are as full of potential as their peers and can achieve and contribute at the highest levels. But because most schools are designed with an almost exclusive focus on “average students,” students with disabilities too often do not receive adequate supports. As a result, they are much […]
Future Ready: The New Version of School
[…] tools and resources into their print-based curriculum and updating their instructional strategies. Some spent the last two months catching up. Five years ago, our Implementation Guide 3.0 described blended learning as “a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student […]
Introducing the Texas Learning Exchange School Operations Guide
Codesigned in collaboration with Educate Texas and Altitude Learning we’re excited to launch the Texas Learning Exchange (TxLx) along with the TxLx School Operations Guide.
Why Every K-12 District Should Invest in Social and Emotional Learning
By: Juan Cabrera and Ray Lozano. EPISD has instituted an emphasis on social and emotional learning (SEL) and believes it can be a defining factor in success for other districts as well.