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Summer Learning: 10 Professional Learning Experiences for Educators

Rachelle Dené Poth

Jul 15, 2020

Rachelle Dene Poth shares seven summer professional learning opportunities for educators.

Leadership

Getting Clearer: Our Students Need Sponsors, Not Saviors

Kelly Niccolls

Jun 24, 2020

Kelly explains the importance of students having sponsors - concerted communities of mentors that in various roles and responsibilities invest in the talents and desires of our young people.

Equity & Access

Restorative Practices at Building 21 Philadelphia

Guest Author

Jun 16, 2020

By: D. Spangler and C. Cubbage. The authors discuss implementing restorative and trauma-informed practices at at Building 21 in Philadelphia.

Future of Learning

Getting Through: Leading with Optimism Hope and Love

Kelly Niccolls

May 19, 2020

By: Kristi Dominguez, Ellen Dorr & Kelly Niccolls. Post Covid-19, increased focus on courageous leadership is more important than ever to envision what learning could become.

Getting Through

Searching for the Other Side of the Tunnel: Leading Through COVID-19

Guest Author

Apr 24, 2020

By: Carlos Moreno & Andrew Frishman. The rules of engagement are being rewritten, and old assumptions are no longer viable. How can we step up our game as leaders? How can we deepen and broaden our service to others in this moment?

Getting Through

Getting Through: Distributive Leadership

Rebecca Midles

Apr 17, 2020

Rebecca and Kelly discuss distributed leadership and how it resolves in community and requires collaboration from multiple stakeholders.

Future of Learning

Voices from the Field: Educational Leadership

Kristen Thorson

Mar 28, 2020

In the second blog of a three-part series on educational perspectives, Erin and Kristen survey educators about educational leadership.

Leadership

Getting Clearer: The Power of Our Flowers

Guest Author

Feb 25, 2020

By: Carlos Moreno, Danique Dolly and Javier Guzman. This special Getting Clearer blog is honoring the memory of Kobe and Gianna Bryant and extends an invitation to shift the paradigm of education leadership.

Equity & Access

Getting Clearer: The Principal, Mayor of the School Community

Guest Author

Feb 19, 2020

By: Patrick Erwin. As a principal, I do the most important job in the city. I create the conditions for students and, by extension, their families, to be lifted out of poverty into a city that is a great place to live. Not a bad job. Not a bad life.

Competency-Based Education

Holacracy: Organizing for Change at D51

Chris Sturgis

Feb 2, 2020

Holacracy is a system for agile self-organizing. At District 51 change management was and is being facilitated by a holacratic structure.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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