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Equity & Access
Equity in Education: We Don’t Need To Level the Playing Field, We Need to Change the Game
By: Erin Lynn Raab, Ph.D. An over-focus on test scores, attainment, and limited outcomes has frightfully de-humanized schooling. We don’t need to level the playing field, we need to change the game.
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.
Leadership
6 Ways School Leaders Can Use TxLx Resources for Learner-Centered Summer Programs
With summer right around the corner, Devin Vodicka shares resources from the Texas Learning Exchange and how leaders and educators can use them to support planning and implementation of learner-centered summer programs.
Future of Learning
The Story of Transforming A System: Spring Grove Schools
By: Gina Meinertz. Globally, school systems are in need of shifting power, practices, and tradition to a more student-centered learning model.
Future of Learning
New Changemaking Strategy Energizes Real World Learning in Kansas City
The Real World Learning Initiative is centered around value community-connected projects, internships, entrepreneurial experiences, college credit, and industry-recognized credentials supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, in an effort to mobilize regional high school transformation.
Getting Through
Students and Equity at the Heart of School Redesign
The Strategy Lab supported seven districts as they navigated a real-time redesign process — this is the story of a few of those districts.
Personalized Learning
Strategies and Considerations When Designing for Summer Learning
There are abundant summer learning opportunities. Alongside Katie Martin, we highlight some of the most compelling and interesting options.
Getting Through
Why We Built a Hub for Vetted Vaccination Resources for Public Schools
The new hub from Brooklyn LAB offers a centralized platform with credible vaccine information and accompanying curriculum and tools that schools can use to promote the uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations and address fears and concerns about vaccines in America’s diverse public-school communities.
EdTech
Virtual Immersion: How to Make the Most of a Virtual Space
Rachelle Dene Poth shares four virtual meeting spaces for collaboration in web virtual reality (VR).
Getting Through
Meeting the Challenge of Reopening: How Laboratory School Communities Can Power Human-Centered Design and Inclusive Innovation
Our country must deepen its investment in laboratory schools and their approaches to make research based, effective change.