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Future of Learning
How to Set Middle Schoolers On a Long-Term Path of Success
[…] self-advocacy, and high school selection in middle school is key to setting students up for success. For example, over 100 elementary and middle schools within the Chicago Public School (CPS) district have implemented a curriculum to help foster self-advocacy and student readiness. In CPS, the freshman on-track metric is used as an indicator of […]
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Place Based Education
A Spatial Paradigm for Thriving Learners
[…] spatial paradigm that is designed to help foster each element, the benefit is exponential. In this article, we will attempt to define a spatial paradigm that helps schools effectively create the conditions to foster the six thriving elements – we will call this the Thriving Paradigm. When defining something for the first time, it’s […]
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Future of Learning
COVID Forced Schools to Innovate: Let’s Build on What They Learned
By Dan Weisberg, Tim Hughes, Katie Martin, and Devin Vodicka The COVID-19 pandemic has tested public education in the United States like nothing else in recent memory. But with vaccination numbers on the rise, more schools are finally looking ahead to resuming in-person instruction—and confronting the potentially historic setbacks students suffered over the last […]
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Learner-Centered
Using Schoolwide Design Sprints to Seed Student-Centered Culture
[…] look forward to seeing how you use these projects to make an impact in our community.” This was what Jim Breedlove, the Board Chairman of Macon County Schools (NC) had to say after he and a group of local community members were panelists to hear a set of “pitches” from students at Macon Early […]
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Difference Making
Equity and ESSER: How Schools Can Embrace a Participatory Approach to Amplify Family Voices in Budget Planning
Schools across the country have a welcome task this summer: deciding how to spend a windfall in federal stimulus funds. Brooklyn Lab is doing that by asking families for their insights.
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Leadership
Schools That Create a Public: Larry Rosenstock on Leadership
[…] through collective practice and by looking at the data and all kinds of information about what they are doing. The school’s purpose is not to serve the public but to CREATE a public. They make walls as permeable as possible with the world outside of school—not citadels apart from community. Innovation in the governance […]
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Getting Through
Processes and Principles for Public Schools Navigating Uncertainty and Adapting to Change
[…] most vulnerable students by asking questions such as: How will we support students who struggle with attention or impulse control, who may be unable to comply with public health requirements? How will we stay safe and support students who may struggle with emotional issues, as they potentially experience more frequent or uncharacteristic discipline outbursts? […]
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Future of Learning
The Key to Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Schools
[…] the vaccine is an understandable response to the lived experience of systemic racism. Schools can, and must, step in to move the conversation around vaccine hesitancy forward. Public schools are uniquely positioned to help ensure that local communities have the information and confidence that they need to get vaccinated. We can work to address […]
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New Pathways
Building an Education Innovation Index
[…] districts around mastery-based learning, Colorado’s Innovation Schools, and Virginia’s Innovation Network connect and support innovative school districts and initiatives. Districts, especially larger districts, build innovation teams (ex. Boston Public School Innovation Department), hire Chief Innovation Officers to promote and support prototyping around best-practices within the classroom and/or new school models (Dallas ISD Personalized Learning). Regional […]
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Difference Making
Post-Pandemic Education: Public-Private Partnerships Are Critical in Developing Countries
Education stakeholders need to readdress the approach to education delivery, both in terms of access to schooling and teaching methods. Innovative public-private partnerships can help.
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