Learner-Centered

Excerpt: Student Centered School Improvement

Guest Author

Mar 23, 2023

Quality education equips young people with knowledge and necessary skills and helps them develop positive values, ideas and morals so they are ready to take the responsibilities and challenges of adulthood.

Students with backpacks gather in a parking lot to observe a large vibrant graffiti mural on a building wall.

Equity & Access

The Power of Process In Deeper Learning: A Case Study in Scaffolding

Aaron Schorn

Mar 13, 2023

I walked into an 8th-grade classroom engaged in introspection, reflection, and metacognition. Here's what else I saw.

Equity & Access

Human-Centered Learning May Be Missing the Point

Mason Pashia

Jan 2, 2023

What would it look like to shift equity and inclusion to encompass a more full ecological lens? Mason Pashia explores in his latest post.

New Pathways

Understanding Opportunity Costs in Education

Trace Pickering

Dec 12, 2022

Opportunity costs need to be calculated in education and those calculations must be focused on the learners, not the school or system.

Learner-Centered

Why Your Students Need a Manifesto

Guest Author

Dec 5, 2022

Students today can benefit from having a personal manifesto, which is a statement of purpose and a script for action to anchor you in your values when you’re faced with dilemmas. Educators can help students create their personal manifesto with a flexible series of exercises, which can then be shared with a larger group to deepen their understanding of each other.

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.

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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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