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Reimagining High School: Map Academy’s Student-Centered Hybrid Modell

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As co-director and co-founder of Map Academy, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing firsthand the transformative power of student-centered learning. Our journey began with a simple yet profound question: How can we create a high school that truly works for students who haven’t succeeded in traditional settings? Map Academy was born out of a desire to […]

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To Help Teachers Survive the Next Few Weeks, Focus on Creativity

CREATIVITY, social-emotional learning / By Lacey Gonzales

The holiday season brings both happiness and hardship. The three-week period between Thanksgiving and the winter break is marked by celebrations as well as disrupted schedules. While some students become exuberant in their anticipation of vacations, presents, or visits with family, others worry about food insecurity and whether they have a safe place to go

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Investigating Creativity in the Classroom: Research Tools for Teachers and Leaders

CREATIVITY, professional development, seeking and measuring broader aims / By Lacey Gonzales

Creativity is the competence to leverage self-interests, motivation, imagination, and prior knowledge in flexible ways1 to generate, evaluate, or improve ideas; imagine new ways of solving problems;2 forge new connections — across content and people;3 create new understanding; or communicate thinking through writing, drawing, voice, music, or any other means of expression.4 At The Learning

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Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: “Engagement Through Inquiry”

CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, seeking and measuring broader aims, student-centered learning / By Samantha Brumley

Diana Laufenberg is the Executive Director at Inquiry Schools, a nonprofit working to create and support student-centered learning environments that are inquiry-driven, project-based and utilize modern technology. For 16 years, Diana was a secondary social studies teacher in Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona and Pennsylvania. She most recently taught at the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in Philadelphia,

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Four Safeguards for Schools to Make Equity Work Stick

change management, CREATIVITY, diversity, equity, and inclusion, school design / By Samantha Brumley

In response to the ways COVID-19 highlighted inequities in their schools, a small team of district leaders at Austin Independent School District embarked on a process to redesign elements of their teaching and learning to make school work better for more kids as part of the Always Ready for Learning Strategy Lab. Despite the daily

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Celebrating Pride in Schools: TLA Team Viewpoints

CREATIVITY, diversity, equity, and inclusion, social-emotional learning / By Samantha Brumley

A core component of whole-child education is supporting student identity development while building an inclusive, caring community. At The Learning Accelerator, we believe that personalizing learning for students includes creating a safe, caring culture and fostering supportive relationships so that all students, regardless of their identities, feel welcomed and loved. As we close out Pride

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The pandemic forced many to change how they teach the arts. What can we learn from them?

CREATIVITY, evolving delivery, student-centered learning / By Samantha Brumley

Few of us would argue that engaging students in the arts — visual, music, dance — is an important part of school. It’s well documented that arts engagement supports academic and social development, but with competing demands on time and budgets, enrichment in visual arts, music, and dance, historically has taken a secondary seat. So,

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Reimagining High School: Map Academy’s Student-Centered Hybrid Modell

Investigating Creativity in the Classroom: Research Tools for Teachers and Leaders

Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: “Engagement Through Inquiry”

Four Safeguards for Schools to Make Equity Work Stick

The pandemic forced many to change how they teach the arts. What can we learn from them?

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