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From Pandemic to Possibility: Now is the Time to Consider Competency-Based Education
By: B. Owens & J. Lee. The inequities exposed by the pandemic have forced educators to rethink their learning plan. Competency-based learning is helping to meet the needs of all students.
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.
It’s Time to Reimagine Our Accountability Systems
By: Dr. Remy Washington. When we are no longer living through a pandemic, this need for multiple measures to assess a school's health will remain the same. Education leaders must take advantage of this crisis and begin engaging with school boards and state and national legislatures to revisit, review, and revise our state school accountability systems.
An Equity-Driven Approach Towards Assessments and Grading
While we wait for the rest of the various “systems” to catch up, there are several bold, attainable moves that teachers and administrators have within their locus of control to make meaningful improvements for students NOW.
Students with Disabilities Deserve LEGIT Solutions: Lightweight Evidence-Gathering Instruments and Tools
Brooklyn LAB is using "LEGIT" solutions - tools that can be applied to reimagine education to serve all learners.
It’s Not About The Grade, It’s About the Growth: 5 New Mindsets for Hybrid Assessment
While the pandemic has had its roadblocks, it has provided dynamic learning experiences that allow for continual feedback and iteration, voice and choice, reflection, and opportunities for continual growth.
How to Take Responsibility for the Future of Education
By: Thomas Hatch. We must hold our communities accountable for making the changes in our society and education that we want to see and create equitable educational opportunities.
Get the F Out
The pandemic has created new opportunities for how to define success for our students. It starts with getting rid of the "F".
Invention Opportunity: Measuring What Matters
By: Devin Vodicka. It's time for an invention opportunity around assessments - create new policies, practices, and tools that encourage the development of purposeful goals tied to whole-child and competency-based learning progressions.
5 Ways to Support Students’ Personal Brand Equity
One of the most invaluable lifelong lessons we could impart on our students is that of the Personal Brand Equity. All of us can learn to craft and develop our Personal Brand Equity - who we are, what we have to offer, what makes us unique and how we might communicate any of this to others.