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Enabling Change

Clear Values, Compassionate Leadership, and a Can-Do Attitude

​These districts faced the complex challenges of the pandemic with a human-centered approach that allowed their response to be nimble and agile.
New Designs for School

Lessons Learned from Remote Teaching: Reevaluating Our Values to Prioritize Connection and Care

These four lessons value the time of parents, colleagues, students, and ourselves, fostering a culture of care in our schools.
Enabling Change

Three Schools that Found the COVID-19 Pandemic to Be “Business as Usual”

During the pandemic, 3 learner-centered schools doubled down on relationships and the conditions each child needed to thrive.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Full Spectrum of Evidence for Student-Centered Learning: Ready for Use, Now!

To help young people develop into high-functioning adults, we need to work with—and value—the full spectrum of evidence that demonstrates their development.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Full Spectrum Narrative of a School for English Language Learners

Student-centered evidence helps International High School at Langley Park better serve English language learners and disrupts the narrative about ELLs.
Why Schools Need to Change

Why We Have Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Urgency and Too Little of the Right Kind in Education

The urgency around learning loss is keeping education spinning in place when the urgency we need is to reimagine schools to address deeply rooted challenges.
New Designs for School

All Learning Is Social and Emotional

Is there any good reason to categorize different forms of learning, to identify what's academic, interpersonal, content, skill, or emotional development?
Enabling Change

Emancipatory Organizational Design: An Alternative to School and District Bureaucracy

Discover the 8 characteristics of an "emancipatory organizational design" for school districts, and move to school systems that create coherence, equity, and powerful learning for students and adults.
Designing for Equity

A Case Study in Community Engagement: Grappling with Challenges to Standards-Based Grades

Community engagement means listening deeply, learning and responding. What happens when students, families, or staff question practices central to your learning design?
Reimagining Assessment

Measures that Matter Most: Q&A with Two Rivers

Two Rivers staff share an update on their work to measure the transfer of deeper learning outcomes documented in NGLC's Measures that Matter Most research project.