A Key Component of Student Voice
By: Lindsay Lyons. Lindsay outlines two key ideas that are at the heart of students’ success: niching content and amplifying student voice. Â
Tips and Tools for Equitable and Sustainable School Design
Erin Whalen of DaVinci Rise shares some of his favorite tips and design processes for unlocking and sustaining the radical potential of your school and team.
Equity in Education: We Don’t Need To Level the Playing Field, We Need to Change the Game
By: Erin Lynn Raab, Ph.D. An over-focus on test scores, attainment, and limited outcomes has frightfully de-humanized schooling. We don’t need to level the playing field, we need to change the game.
Why After School Matters More than Ever
Learn about former educator, Aurora Dreger, and her experience transitioning from the classroom to leading an after school program.
Developing Racial-Cultural Literacy through Fiction Reading and Literature Guides
The beauty of literature rests in the possibilities of counter, alter, and micro-narratives that can relay the importance of inclusion to its readers. Here's how literature guides can help learners develop racial-cultural literacy.
Building Advisory Systems with Intentionality, Equity, Curation, and Impact
This piece highlights two leaders building advisory systems for today’s students that demonstrate the intentionality, equity, curation, and impact underscored in the design principles of New Pathways.
Looking Behind the Screen: Critical Media Literacy Gives Us Tools to Understand How Media Shapes Our Perception of Others and the World
Critical Media Literacy seeks to equip people with the tools to be independent media users, free from oppression or restrictions by others.
School Systems Lack Capacity to Support Data Driven Decision Making, National Survey Finds
Data can be a powerful tool for education improvement, but school systems need help to ensure that educators and administrators have access to timely, accurate, and actionable data, as well as the analytical skills needed to leverage it in meaningful ways. The Project Unicorn coalition is working to ensure that the promise of education data is not a myth, but an everyday reality.
A Culture of No: How to Get Past Fear and Risk-Aversion to Make Things Happen
Trace Pickering reflects on the ways his career in edu and business has shown him the power of yes.
Young Men United: Opportunity Awaits
Young Men United (YMU) is an evidence-based initiative that provides wrap-around services to college-ready high school students beginning in the tenth or eleventh year to develop barrier-free pathways for young Black men to achieve their academic and career goals.
