Next Gen Learning in Action
This blog offered perspectives from educators engaged in redesigning the future of public schools. This blog is no longer being updated.
Education
Opinion
A Lawyer Walks Into a Classroom
How my experience as an attorney helps me teach—and how you can apply that in your own classes (without enduring law school!).
Assessment
Opinion
Student Experience: The Key to Deepening Student Learning
This past year, a group of D.C. charter and district teachers came together to create rubrics, performance assessments, and instructional design to develop students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Professional Development
Opinion
It's a Tough Time for Teachers. Here's Why I'm Joining the Profession.
As an African-American man who is determined to shape young lives and lift up my community, I can't think of a more powerful job.
Assessment
Opinion
Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments: Lessons From Hawaiian-Focused Charter Schools
Students at Hawaiian-Focused Charter Schools complete culturally relevant capstone projects at key junctures in their education journey to demonstrate their learning and growth.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Friendship: A Sign of High-Performing Schools?
What is the most important way to measure staff culture in a school?
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Engagement, Empathy, and Empowerment for Service
Learners develop real-world skills and global mindsets through service projects at Sunset Middle School in Longmont, Colo.
School & District Management
Opinion
Hacking the Boston Public Schools' Innovation Incubator
The planning team of the district's Innovation Incubator applied the same hacking mindset taught in the professional-development program to improve the program itself.
Student Achievement
Opinion
Using Community Ideas to Shape the Vision for a Career Superhighway
Vista Unified is using the design-thinking process with community representatives to re-envision career development in the region.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
The Many-Teacher Classroom
As educators, we want to foster collaborative learning experiences. How can we set up classrooms in which they authentically occur?
Education
Opinion
Transforming High School by Engaging Student Voice: Co-Creating Learning Experiences
After completing a co-created project, Vista High School educators listened to students explain how they see their voices impacting their learning and what difference it makes for them.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
A Note to School Districts: Fish, Cut Bait, or Swim to Shore
School districts are organized as bureaucracies that often get in the way of, rather than provide meaningful support for, teaching and learning.
Assessment
Opinion
Culturally Responsive Assessment Practices Through Nā Hopena Aʻo (HĀ)
The Hawai'i education department's Office of Hawaiian Education is piloting a proficiency-based assessment model that is culturally responsive and place-based.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Teaching Community and Knowing Students
A recent experience reminds the author of the power of feeling known by someone and the centrality of community and relationship building for schools and learning.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
How's Discipline at Your School? Don't Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data
YouthTruth asked 104,000 school staff, students, and their families how they perceive the fairness of discipline at their schools. The results can help start conversations about discipline policy and leading by listening.