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Looking at Teacher Accountability Through a New Lens

A Principal's Reflections

What results is the proliferation of an industrialized model of education that reformers claim they want to get away from, but the policies they support only help to sustain it. We need to realize that this, along with other traditional elements associated with education, no longer prevail.

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Personalized Learning: The Why, How, and What

A Principal's Reflections

At the forefront is developing and sustaining a culture that imparts purpose, meaning, relevance, ownership, and various paths that cater to both the strengths and weaknesses of all students. A more practical approach is to be more diligent as to the specific strategies that help learners master it in ways beyond just traditional means.

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Elevating Youth Voice in Learner-Centered School Quality Systems

ED Surge

In today’s system, there are limited opportunities for students’ interests, experiences, hopes, cultures and perspectives to be a part of their education. The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Who suffers the most?

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies.

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Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity

Digital Promise

What are the systems, structures, and cultures that are barriers to creating and implementing powerful learning opportunities for all? At Digital Promise our mission is to accelerate innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn with the goal of closing the Digital Learning Gap.