Place Based Education
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Equity & Access
How We Move Forward: Practicing Three Inclusive, Anti-Racist Mindsets for Reopening Schools
[…] you did not consider. Your design will start to look like a house with bolted-on additions, which inevitably will cause the whole structure to collapse. End of life will be sooner. Costs will be greater in the long term.” The solution: We need to learn from and with those students who are most marginalized […]
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Future of Learning
Teaching American Values in a Time of Protest
[…] to generation. A primary rationale for creating “common schools” in the 19th century was to prepare Americans of every stripe for active and responsible participation in civic life. As FDR would assert in the mid- 20th century, “That the schools make worthy citizens is the most important responsibility placed on them.” But in recent […]
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Leadership
Scaling Active Learning: Professional Development Was Key to the El Paso Transformation
[…] was due to every teacher, leader, and mentor receiving training and individualized coaching to create an equity of learner experience districtwide. Teachers are growing in the e2L Life Ready Best Practices, which in return promotes student growth in academic and life ready skills. Crystal Johnston, an EPISD mentor, believed that the program had a […]
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Future of Learning
5 Ways To Extend Learning and Challenge Learners in the Virtual Environment
[…] students to these or have them create their own service projects. Nothing teaches and models empathy better than service learning. We know these experiences can change one’s life and purpose permanently in so many good ways. Passion Projects Whether teachers are pursuing project-based or deeper learning pedagogies, one way to jump into projects—especially in […]
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Equity & Access
Economic Mobility High: The New End Game for America’s High Schools
[…] their attention to the next class of students. After these high school seniors graduate, how much attention do we pay to their success in college, careers, and life? How do we look at success beyond high school by race, gender, and economic status of students to ensure students from our community thrive? What is […]
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Future of Learning
How Interviewing an Innovator Can Expand A Student’s Network
[…] (here is the article). “This gave me the confidence and knowledge as to how I can work on my professional growth during these early stages of my life,” she said. Cali Carper is an aspiring community leader who used the course experience to interview two different political leaders in her home state of Wisconsin. “The […]
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Equity & Access
Educating All Learners Alliance Launches Flagship Site, Shares Personas Educators Can Use to Understand Students’ Lived Experience During COVID-19
[…] narrative that we hope will appeal to students as well as educators. The persona’s key ingredient is a narrative that helps paint a picture of each student’s life at different points during the pandemic, from the first lockdown to the start of the new school year. Color-coded timeline “alerts” represent real-life events such as […]
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Difference Making
Living in Beta: New Advisory Program Helps Teens Learn With Purpose
[…] discover their purpose. Living in Beta is based on the One Stone commitment to design thinking and takes inspiration from the popular course and book Designing Your Life by Stanford’s Burnett and Evans. “To live in beta is to accept the idea that no one is ever complete,” said Chad Carlson, Director of Research & […]
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Future of Learning
Paid Internships Propel Albuquerque Youth
[…] traditional setting. They focus on learning by doing, community engagement, and student support. The 12-year-old nonprofit launched by Tony Monfiletto serves a two-sided market that provides real- life career experience for young people and a talent pipeline for employers–it’s mutually beneficial on both sides. Real-life experience is of primary importance and core to what […]
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Learning Design
Play, Play-Based Learning Important Now More Than Ever
As the pandemic stretches on, we have naturally heard of the many challenges related to distance learning. And when it comes to how to make learning and life better for our students, we typically hear about new tech applications, games, projects or even instructional approaches. And although those certainly have tremendous value, we may […]
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