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Challenges, Opportunities and Actions

Mason Pashia

Apr 12, 2023

Artificial Intelligence creates great challenges and opportunities for powerful, equitable learning experiences. Here are a few ways you can get started.

Equity & Access

Accelerate ED Initiative Creates Opportunities for Students to Excel

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 4, 2023

Throughout a nine-month design sprint, 12 teams worked to create a blueprint for expanding access to and understanding of accelerated pathways.

New Pathways

How Teacher Beliefs Transform Student Outcomes: The Impact of Collective Educator Agency

Guest Author

Mar 9, 2023

At AVID, we’ve learned that when educators believe in their ability to act and that their action will bring about the desired outcome, they become even more efficient and effective. With collective educator agency, educators take intentional actions grounded in the belief that together, they can support all students in being academically successful.

Learner-Centered

Four Key Lessons from Utah for Accelerating and Expanding Learner-Centered Education

Guest Author

Mar 2, 2023

Policymakers and practitioners regularly stated that the country couldn’t afford to simply revert to our traditional, industrial-era approach to education. What can be done to take advantage of this opportunity and transform and reinvent our K-12 system into something better?

Students from Notre Dame de Sion Podcast

Difference Making

Students from Notre Dame de Sion on Global Impact and Being Solutionaries

Getting Smart Staff

Jan 27, 2023

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by some of the students who make Notre Dame de Sion an amazing place to learn.

SEL & Mindset

Imitation Is Inspiration: Copy-Paste Your Way to Success

Character Lab

Nov 22, 2022

Angela Duckworth pens her latest tip on how imitation is inspiration.

Challenges and Recommendations

Mason Pashia

Nov 9, 2022

The good news is that solutions already exist in the ecosystem and they just need to be combined and scaled... the bad news is that this is complex work.

New Pathways

How Systems and States Can Encourage Better Project-Based Learning

Tom Vander Ark

Oct 7, 2022

Projects develop critical skills including problem definition, design thinking, problem-solving, communications, collaboration, and project management.

Equity & Access

Education Front and Center: How to Activate Learning Ecosystems

Guest Author

Sep 21, 2022

We’ve always known that communities have the wisdom and skills to teach their children. The question is, how do you activate this learning ecosystem?

Equity & Access

The Equity Continuum: Cultivating an Equity Mindset in Classroom Global Partnerships

Guest Author

Aug 25, 2022

Inequitable global partnerships in the classroom lead to adults who think in inequitable terms about their relationship with the world. How might we change the root problem?

	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