learning design
Early Learning
Thinking Inside the Box: Turning Vacant Box Stores Into Early Learning Facilities
In Kansas City, a district sought out to centralize their early learning programs and got creative with space.
Future of Learning
Safety Loss: Using the Social Engagement System to Find ‘Felt Safety’
By: K. Munger & M. Marcus. Providing experiences of emotional safety and support for both educators and students is crucial to restore safety and catalyze learning in the wake of Covid-19.
Future of Learning
Helping Teachers Prioritize Social Emotional Learning
By: JoJuan Armour. JoJuan shares three approaches to support teachers and allow them to prioritize their own social emotional wellness.
Leadership
Perfection vs Improvement: The Problem With Expecting Student Perfection
By: Jane Mueller. The quest for perfection is linked to burnout, anxiety, and stress. Jane shares how the world’s greatest achievers pursue improvement over perfection and what you can do to foster a similar mindset within the classroom.
Equity & Access
Emancipating Equity for Learning Justice
Kelly Niccolls and Rebecca Midles discuss how we must dismantle the machine that is schooling and emancipate equity for learning justice.
Leadership
TLA’s Real-Time Redesign Toolkit Helps Schools Make Practical and Positive Change
The Learning Accelerator (TLA) shares toolkits that provide learning strategies and guided activities for educators.
Future of Learning
How Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Reduced Their Failure Rate by over 60%
PK Diffenbaugh and Beth Wodecki of MPUSD reworked systems and processes to create a more equitable learning experience that sustains engagement.
Leadership
Resilience: The Skill That Keeps Teaching and Learning Thriving at Pasadena ISD
By: Melissa McCalla. Resilience must be a community effort - students need educators as part of their support system now more than ever.
Future of Learning
A Reliable Hybrid Learning Model: Cedar Rapids Schools Respond to Setbacks
By: Eric Nentrup. Superintendent Noreen Bush and the Cedar Rapids Community School District discuss how they managed setbacks over the past year and maintained a mindset to keep moving forward.
Equity & Access
Teaching Truth to Power
By: Anthony Jackson. Anthony outlines ways to address systematic racism and ways to create learning environments that prioritize understanding and cooperation across cultures.