Learner-Centered
Learner-Centered
Where Does Work to Imagine a Learner-Centered Ecosystem Begin?
While learner-centered ecosystems can begin in a variety of ways, establishing key people, practices, connections, or conditions to build upon is one approach to developing a strong foundation.
Project-Based Learning
How to Co-Design Curriculum: Fostering Inclusivity through Shared Family Narratives
Not sure how to begin a transformative educational journey with a co-designed curriculum with learners? Here is my experience doing just that, by partnering with learners to actively shape their experiences by celebrating diversity through family narratives and recipes.
Difference Making
Making Civic Learning Meaningful With And For Young People
Through iThrive's Game Design Studio teens were engaged as equals and experts in imagining and ideating alongside others in the civic education ecosystem.
Learner-Centered
Agency and Co-Authoring Thriving in Colorado Schools
Over the last few months, we’ve been fortunate to accompany school leaders to some outstanding Colorado schools that exemplify new learning models that lead to new pathways.
Learner-Centered
The Students Are Talking, It’s Time We Listen
Student voice is often requested, but only selectively. We must encourage, engage and include students far more than we already do in our education systems.
Competency-Based Education
From the State House to the Classroom: How Policymakers Can Help Bring Competency-Based Education Into Reality
Wyoming’s big shift towards competency-based education (CBE) isn’t just a policy milestone - it’s an opportunity to examine partnership-based approaches to implementing CBE.
Place Based Education
Addressing the Reluctancy to Transform Learning Environments
Learning Communities offer a more collaborative and holistically supportive environment for kids and adults alike. Nathan Strenge shares more in their latest post.
Learner-Centered
Using Schoolwide Design Sprints to Seed Student-Centered Culture
With a solid process and supportive staff, students can develop the confidence needed to take these skills to be critical thinkers and help solve real-world problems. Read more about how Macon Early College began using the design process as a way to plant the seeds for a more student-centered culture.
Personalized Learning
Not Your Typical Back-to-School Days at Learner-Centered Sites
Learner-centered leaders recognize the need to help young people lean into their personal development as a critical part of their learning and do so in community with the peers and adults in their environments.
EdTech
The Ready Player One Test: Systems for Personalized Learning
We can examine how regeneration can support innovative pedagogy in immersive learning environments by digging a little deeper. Dagan Bernstein shares more in their latest post.