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Learner-Centered

Tips from the Field: 4 Strategies for Supporting students

Guest Author

Oct 31, 2022

Educators all know that keeping students connected and engaged is critical to their success in school. Here are four strategies for supporting students.

Learner-Centered

What Could You Do with 5 Additional Hours of Time with Students Each Day?

Trace Pickering

Oct 24, 2022

Trace Pickering pens the final piece of a three-part series on valuing learner time.

Personalized Learning

Students Are Calling BS on High School and Opportunity Knocks

Trace Pickering

Oct 10, 2022

Schools talk a lot about personalizing learning, of meeting kids where they are, and yet we see most high schools continue forward with prescribed, discipline-specific courses that continues to isolate disciplines from one another despite the fact that they are highly interrelated.

Personalized Learning

Navigating Education While Blindfolded

Matt Piercy

Oct 6, 2022

How often are students asked what they really care about? How often are they provided time to observe their environment and determine problems? What happens if we begin to ask these questions?

New Pathways

Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right

Julia Freeland Fisher

Jul 28, 2022

Julia Freeland Fisher details how better data on students’ networks can start the school year off right.

EdTech

Peer Mentoring Works…and Now It’s Scalable

Tom Vander Ark

May 2, 2022

Thinkist is a San Diego edtech startup that helps schools set up and manage peer tutoring programs designed to both close equity gaps and build a diverse teacher pipeline.

Equity & Access

Student-Driven Assessment: Building Learner Agency Through Shared Ownership

Guest Author

Apr 19, 2022

Kim Carter and Devin Vodicka explore student-driven assessment and how to ensure learners are owning their learning journeys.

Project-Based Learning

3 Tips to Build Student’s STEM Confidence and Curiosity from America’s Top Young Scientist

Guest Author

Apr 14, 2022

Student Sarah Park shares her story of curiosity and how it led to a purposeful passion.

Equity & Access

Having our Cake and Eating It Too

Guest Author

Mar 31, 2022

David Cook shares the chief elements of a learner-centered system and why measuring all learners the same doesn't work.

New Pathways

Students Co-authoring Their Own Learning

Tom Vander Ark

Mar 11, 2022

By inviting learners to co-author learning experiences, journeys and records, we help them build the most important skills and dispositions they’ll need to succeed in a changing world.

	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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