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New Designs for School

How Might We Foster More Engaging Student Learning Opportunities? Industry Partnerships

St. Vrain Valley Schools has fostered strong industry-education partnerships to advance learning environments, the future workforce, and its community.
Enabling Change

Next Gen Learning Requires Next Gen Change Management

Mission Vista High School in Vista, CA, empowers teachers to own and lead the transformation of student learning.
Reimagining Assessment

Keeping Students at the Center with Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments

Performance assessments provide a critical space for students to reflect on and share their personal stories and their identities as learners.
Reimagining Assessment

Making Learning Public: Two Practices for Engaging and Empowering All Students

With community showcases of learning and personalized sharing in student-led conferences, Two Rivers students are deeply engaged, leading their own education.
Reimagining Assessment

How Can Students and Teachers Co-Design Learning?

When teachers design lessons with students, it pushes student learning and deepens teacher understanding of their students and the learning process.
Enabling Change

Advancing Public Education Together: Parent Leadership, Powerful Messaging, and the Strength of the Community

Community support for St. Vrain Valley Schools is accelerating innovation and student achievement. Here's how the district engaged its community.
Professional Learning

For Teacher Professional Growth, Study the Soil

Professional learning needs to meet teachers where they are. To do that well, facilitators need to know the teachers and their context.
Why Schools Need to Change

Learning for Success in the Real World

Educators are partnering with their communities to prepare young people for life-long success through real-world learning. Toolkit included!
Why Schools Need to Change

A Conversation about Education as an Ecosystem

​Join this exploration of the important role of context and environment in school and learning, looking at the metaphors we use to describe K-12 education.
Designing for Equity

A Tale of Two (English Language) Learner-Centered Schools

Two schools use next gen learning design principles to enhance the learning experience of English Language Learners and all their students.