Learner-Centered

A teacher at Capital City Public Charter School provides feedback on a student’s science poster. (Expanded with AI).

Learner-Centered

The Students Are Talking, It’s Time We Listen

Dec 4, 2023

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

Guest Author

Sep 19, 2023

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

Guest Author

Sep 5, 2023

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

Guest Author

Sep 4, 2023

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

Guest Author

Aug 30, 2023

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

Guest Author

Aug 14, 2023

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.

AI image of Black teacher planning a lesson

Competency-Based Education

Charting the Path for Personalized Learning By Planning Backward

Rebecca Midles

Jul 17, 2023

With the growing interest in unpacking learning models and refining teaching and learning frameworks, foundational learning practices are resurfacing in conversations about personalized learning.

New Pathways

Tacoma Adding More Personalized Learning Opportunities

Rebecca Midles

Jun 29, 2023

Rebecca Midles shares how Tacoma Public Schools has taken a collaborative approach to developing its choice schools, working with teachers, parents, and community members to create schools that reflect the needs and interests of the local community.

Learner-Centered

Learning as a Collective

Guest Author

Jun 14, 2023

The first step toward having schools bring together the collective is for schools to treat learners as members of a collective.

Learner-Centered

9 Ways to Explore National Poetry Month

Rachelle Dené Poth

Apr 7, 2023

Poetry Month is a perfect time of the year for teachers to look for ways to increase student engagement in learning.

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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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