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In person, remote, and hybrid – oh my! Engaging and supporting students – no matter where they are along the road.
Looking for ways to assess your students equitably despite their physical locations? With more districts moving to some variation of in-person and remote learning (e.g., hybrid, simultaneous learning, concurrent learning, Zoom-and-Room, and...
Key Terms & Definitions for Redesign
The following terms are used in the Real-Time Redesign toolkit developed through the Strategy Lab. Educational Equity“Creating opportunities and removing barriers in educational experience so each student can reach his or her full potential - in...
Share strategies (not germs!) in 2021
Before the end of last year, I was given the amazing opportunity to meet with K-12 educators from all over the country and hear about what was making them and their students happy and engaged during these strange times. I wanted to capture specific...
Looking Back and Looking Forward: Lessons from Lindsay Unified School District
Schools across the country (and around the world) are in the throes of responding to the challenges of remote learning as a result of the novel coronavirus crisis. For the moment, many schools might feel as though they are in survival mode, but...
Open Educational Resources: An Urgent Priority
Every child deserves a highly effective and equitable education that equips them with the mastery of rigorous academic standards, mindset, and other non-academic capacities they need to reach their full and unique potential. Engaging, rigorous...
Cultivating Networks for Success and Scale: The Launch of TLA Network 2020
As any school or system leader knows, the work of improvement and innovation can be hard and lonely stuff. Pursuing change to implement any approach requires significant focus and effort, leaving little time to seek and connect with others who may...
If Personalized Learning Is Going to Work, Teacher Onboarding Must Improve. Here’s How.
This blog was originally published on EdSurge. In 2017, at the end of our third year of implementing personalized learning at Dallas ISD, our central personalized learning team conducted a series of stepback meetings with school leaders. We wanted...
Is Technology Good or Bad for Learning?
This blog was originally published on the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard. I'll bet you’ve read something about technology and learning recently. You may have read that device use enhances learning outcomes. Or perhaps you’ve read that screen...
Digital Citizenship: Focusing on the what, why, and how
The call to teach digital citizenship has been heard by schools around the world, yet there are a few schools who question the value, purpose, and position of teaching digital citizenship within the classroom. Many of those questions stem from a...
A Personalized Journey: Three lessons learned from school redesign
“How might we redesign school to better meet the needs of each student?” We posed this question to educators in the Dallas Independent School District back in 2014 with the hope of bringing together like-minded educators who wanted to redefine...
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