Equity & Access

Literacy Concerns in the New Mutuality

In this time of crisis, principals and other school staff have led with solidarity to make sure basic needs are met and are now pivoting to new strategies for protecting instructional time. Emergency response plans to team up and deploy devices and even wifi access points emerged and are now ubiquitous. And yet, for […]

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Personalized Learning

Successful Play-Based Learning in Virtual Environments

Of all things instructional that may be challenging to facilitate in the distance environment, play-based learning may be one of the most. But don’t tell that to Teacher Aidan Bybee who has been making quite an impression with her virtually-facilitated play-based instruction and activities. Bybee, along with her team at iLEAD Agua Dulce […]

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Competency-Based Education

Mastery Learning in Action

Mastery Learning in Action, a paper recently published by the Mastery Transcript Consortium, offers a comparative structure based on visits and interview from five of its member schools.

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Leadership

A New Market For Volunteers: Teens Tutor Teens

By: Gabriela Nguena Jones, Erin Kim, Anne Wang, Meghna Raman, and Dana Agbede In a common classroom, where the average number of students is 23, it can be difficult for individual students to keep up with the pace of the curriculum set by school districts. There are many factors that affect a student’s ability […]

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