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How Educators Can Help Students Understand Their Own Neuroscience, and In Turn, Foster Positive Classroom Behaviors

Guest Author

May 16, 2024

Reagan Rogers shares how with insights into how students' brains develop and respond to experiences, educators can cultivate self-awareness and positive behavioral change, fostering nurturing environments conducive to emotional well-being and academic success.

New Pathways

Skills Transcripts at Scale: Why The ETS & MTC Partnership is a Big Deal

Tom Vander Ark

May 15, 2024

The ETS and MTC partnership is a big advance on goals and signals. We finally have a chance to move courses and grades into the background and foreground powerful personalized learning experiences.

Students and teacher collaborating at a round table with tablets in a modern, innovation-focused learning space.

Career & Technical Ed

How to Start Investing in New Pathways

Tom Vander Ark

May 14, 2024

A small exurban district asked for tips on how to invest in New Pathways. Here are 10 ideas for how to get started.

Diagram showing microschool ecosystem types across homeschool, private, and public school settings with labeled subcategories.

Learning Design

Small Schools, Big Umbrella: Expanding, Defining and Scaling the Microschool Ecosystem

Nate McClennen, Jordan Luster

May 9, 2024

The blog explores the increasing attention on microschools as a personalized educational alternative and highlights different scaling approaches for microschools in both private and public sectors.

Students with backpacks pause on a rocky lakeside trail surrounded by evergreen trees during a wilderness hiking expedition.

Place Based Education

Five Reasons to Bring Our National Parks into the Classroom

Guest Author

Apr 29, 2024

National Parks are a great way to provide experiential learning, outdoor learning and engage learners with a nuanced past.

Da Vinci RISE High Students backstage at the Behind the Festival Field Trip

Equity & Access

Tips and Tools for Equitable and Sustainable School Design

Guest Author

Apr 23, 2024

Erin Whalen of DaVinci Rise shares some of his favorite tips and design processes for unlocking and sustaining the radical potential of your school and team.

Youth sitting calmly as a large wolf approaches closely, during an outdoor therapeutic wolf encounter program.

Difference Making

At-Risk Youth Discover Support, Healing With Wolves

Michael Niehoff

Apr 22, 2024

Wolf Connection is a unique 165-acre educational sanctuary in southern California that brings people together through direct relationships with rescued wolves for the purpose of empowering the next generation to become authentic leaders and stewards of the earth.

Students working independently on laptops at shared studio desks surrounded by design project boards on a cork wall.

Equity & Access

How to Design a School for Belonging

Guest Author

Apr 18, 2024

Architect Danish Kurani reflects on architecture and design projects that have given learners agency and a sense of belonging.

Students gathered in a circle on rocky lakeside terrain surrounded by pine trees under a clear blue sky

Competency-Based Education

Designing Competency-Based Models for Students by Students

Guest Author

Apr 16, 2024

The Growth Framework from One Stone is a great way to ensure quality no matter what your school's growth plan is.

A young student intently studies a laptop screen while a teacher leans in to guide them in a classroom setting.

EdTech

Stories of AI Literacy and How to Get Started

Rachelle Dené Poth

Apr 15, 2024

Rachelle Dene Poth documents her approach to teaching AI Literacy in the classroom and encourages other educators to follow suit.

	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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