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New Designs for School

Transforming High School by Engaging Student Autonomy

Vista High School students describe an interdisciplinary project that required greater levels of autonomy, voice, and social construction. Podcasts included!
Building Community

Teachers as the Drivers of Change

When we increase student voice and choice in learning, we must also increase teacher voice and choice in curriculum, instruction, school operations, and PD.
Why Schools Need to Change

Student-Centered Evidence at Mission Vista High School

Find out how Mission Vista High School uses student-centered evidence of their personalized learning innovations and explore the Full Spectrum of Evidence student voice gallery.
Professional Learning

Next Gen Tools: Hiring for Mindset

Because teachers are the most important school-based factor for student success, hiring matters. Hiring for mindset involves a performance-based experience, where current students and teachers have a strong voice in the selection process, and a candidate’s fit with school culture has at least equal weight with performance and content knowledge.
New Designs for School

How Competency-based Learning Can Support Student Agency

When students design their own pathway, are free to fail/free to learn, and demonstrate mastery through self-directed assessment, student agency thrives.
Designing for Equity

Mo'olelo: Building a Culturally Responsive Framework for Assessment

This podcast shares the voices of students, educators, and others about a project that grounds assessment in the Hawaiian practice of mo'olelo (storytelling).
Reimagining Assessment

Students as Innovators and Co-Creators at Del Lago Academy

How student voice and choice continue to shape Competency X, Del Lago Academy's innovative approach to assessment through badging.
New Designs for School

Personalizing Learning with Music and Art at Mountain View High School

To personalize learning at this Colorado high school, teachers are asked to become learners, take risks, and give students more voice, choice and ownership.
New Designs for School

Students before Content: The True Power of Relationships in the Classroom

By treating my students with kindness and respecting their voices, I’ve seen unprecedented levels of engagement and positivity in the classroom.