Webinar Recording: Personalized Professional Development with Lamont Elementary School District
Explore personalized professional development with Lamont Elementary School District in our latest webinar. LCC Partner Catina Hancock and Superintendent Lori Gonzalez share strategies for implementing personalized PD initiatives. Learn about: Lamont ESD's three-tiered approach to personalized PD Increasing educator self-reflection by 30% in 4 months Combining quality resources with collaboration time Impact of leadership retreats on innovation Gain practical insights to adapt these strategies in your own educational setting. Watch now and transform your approach to professional development. Want to discuss what’s possible? Let’s schedule a short call. View Recording Resources Shared During the Webinar: Lamont's Framework for the Future ...
Facilitate Empathy Interviews and Focus Groups Tool
Our Empathy Interview and Focus Group Tool provides a comprehensive guide for conducting both one-on-one interviews and focus groups. It includes tips for building rapport, asking effective questions, and ensuring equity of voice. By using this resource, you'll be able to uncover bright spots, key challenges, and surprising insights that can inform your planning for the upcoming school year. We invite you to explore this tool and discover how it can help you create a more responsive, inclusive, and learner-centered environment. Please complete the form below to access the resource.
Why Your Framework for the Future Needs These 4 Essential Elements
Why You Need a Framework for the Future A Framework for the Future serves as an ongoing reference for all to understand the why, how, and what of the system’s vision. It provides clarity to help navigate ambiguity, allows for creativity and flexibility with constraints, and supports coherence and distributed decision-making. As César Morales has written, a Framework for the Future “increases levels of collective efficacy by providing a shared understanding of the organization's purpose, strengthening commitment to a common vision, and fortifying a strong sense of teamwork among all education partners” (2023). Key components of a Framework for the ...
Webinar Recording: The Future of Assessment and Reporting: Examples of Competency-Based Approaches
Discover the power of competency-based reporting in our latest webinar, featuring insights from the upcoming Competency-Based Reporting Playbook. Our expert panel shared their experiences and strategies for successfully implementing competency-based reporting, covering topics such as rethinking high school transcripts, credits, and assessment practices focused on growth. Key takeaways: Practical insights into successful competency-based reporting examples Strategies for shifting away from traditional assessment practices Valuable lessons learned and emerging trends in competency-based reporting By watching this webinar recording, you'll gain valuable knowledge and inspiration to create a more meaningful educational experience that empowers learners. Sign up now to receive early access ...
End of Year Reflection Tool
As the school year comes to a close, it's crucial to take a moment to reflect on the experiences, growth, and challenges faced by educators and learners alike. At Learner-Centered Collaborative, we understand the importance of this reflection process, which is why we've created the End of Year Reflection Tool. This tool is designed to help educators, leaders, and learners celebrate their successes, learn from their challenges, and set intentions for the upcoming school year. Our End of Year Reflection Tool provides a structured approach to looking back on the year, encouraging users to identify memorable moments, biggest ...
Webinar Recording: Supercharge Passion: Evolving Educator Capacity
An insightful discussion with Royd Darrington, a visionary educator from Juab School District in Utah, as he shares his philosophies and approaches for cultivating meaningful professional development experiences for teachers. Juab School District has been a leader in implementing personalized learning strategies and empowering educators to become facilitators of learning. This webinar explored Juab School District's core beliefs and how they create engaging, personalized professional development opportunities focused on building teacher capacity, adaptability, and a growth mindset. You'll come away with: Practical insights into successful professional development examples and innovative Juab School District approaches that have shown significant impact Strategies ...
Webinar Recording: Cultivating Meaningful Learning Experiences in Hawaii
An insightful discussion with leaders from SEEQS in Hawaiʻi as they share their philosophies and approaches for cultivating meaningful learning experiences for students. SEEQS, the School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability, is an innovative public charter school in Honolulu serving grades 6-8 since 2013. This webinar explored SEEQS's core beliefs and how they create engaging, real-world learning opportunities focused on building community, curiosity, and critical thinking skills. You'll come away with: An inside look at signature SEEQS programs like student portfolios, exhibition of learning, and sustainability education. New professional development strategies that empower teachers and align the full staff ...
Ladder and Knot Outcomes
The first step in designing learner-centered experiences, assessment systems, and structures that are competency-based is to define the desired learning outcomes—what we want students to know and be able to do. There are two types of learning outcomes and, ideally, we are tending to both. We often think of them as Ladder and Knot outcomes. This tool provides an overview of each type of outcome and will guide you to identify and reflect on the outcomes in your current practices. Please complete the form below to access the resource.
These Pennsylvania Educators are Ready to Make Change Happen
Co-authored by Brittany Griffin and Jesse Ross Collaborative, learner-centered innovation has taken off in Western Pennsylvania. Throughout the 2023-24 school year, 23 educators from four Western Pennsylvania school districts—Hampton Township, Shaler Area, Deer Lakes, and Avonworth—are participating in a Learner-Centered Collaborative Innovation Cohort. Get an inside view into the experience in this 3-part series (updated after each in-person learning day). Fall Cohort Convening Launch. Self-assess. Set goals. Celebrate. This particular regional Innovation Cohort is designed to enhance and deepen the learner-centered practices each educator is implementing in their classrooms and across their districts. Throughout the academic year, educators will ...
Webinar Recording: Beyond Standards: Innovations in Competency Based Assessment
Tired of standardized tests and letter grades that fall short of capturing deeper learning? Explore the possibilities of competency-based assessment with school leaders at Embark Education as they: Explain the core principles and benefits of competency-based assessment. Share real-world examples and applications of competency frameworks in action. Provide valuable insights and lessons learned from designing and implementing competency-based models. You'll come away with examples of competency-based assessment frameworks to help you reimagine assessment and grading in your specific context. View recording Keep the learning going! Check out our Use Assessment as a Tool for Learning online course.
Scorecard Template
To achieve our desired outcomes in education, it is important to have clear success metrics, monitor progress in real-time, and implement a dashboard system that focuses on organizational goals. A scorecard is a helpful instrument to accomplish all this. Complete the information below to access the tool:
Goal-Setting and Reflection Template
Goal-setting and reflecting is a part of a learner-centered practice and it can and should take place with our youngest of learners all the way through to our most senior administrators. This tool is intended to support educators and leaders to set meaningful and relevant goals that will support a growth mindset and continuous improvement. Complete the information below to access the tool:
5 Ways to Drive Learner Agency with Goal-Setting
Enabling students to take control of their own learning is one of the most powerful results of a learner-centric education. We share five techniques for cultivating student agency.
Elevating Learner Voices: Deer Lakes Students Share Their Vision in Video
At Learner-Centered Collaborative, we know centering student voice is key for meaningful change in education. We recently witnessed the power of learner voice in an impressive video produced by high school students at our partner district, Deer Lakes School District. To showcase Deer Lakes’ work with Learner-Centered Collaborative to redesign learning, high school students created a video highlighting their school’s Portrait of a Learner. This framework, developed through an extensive process engaging all stakeholders, defines 5 key competencies Deer Lakes graduates need to thrive: creativity, communication, collaboration, empowered citizenship, and wellness. While the video summarizes the collaborative process the district ...
Leadership Forum: Igniting Limitless Potential for All Learners with Encinitas Union School District
Our Learner-Centered Leadership Forum series is an opportunity to gain timely, first-hand insights, examples, ideas, and lessons learned from learner-centered district leaders doing the work in the field with their teams, community, and learners. In this second event in the series in December 2023, Encinitas Superintendent Andrée Grey and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Amy Illingworth shared about their vibrant approach to communicating the district’s common vision and how educators play an important role in how the stories of all learners unfold. Gain valuable insights and creative examples of how the district is rallying behind its learner profile and making ...
Strategy: Provide goal setting frameworks and tools
Personalized Learning Strategy: Provide goal-setting frameworks and tools NOTE: This strategy is part of the self-paced Develop Learner Agency Course Goal-setting is an important life skill and leads to better learning outcomes when done right. Providing tools and frameworks, such as SMART Goals and WOOP Goals, to learners to scaffold their goal-setting and reflecting process has proven to be an effective strategy that leads to long-term goal-setting Bright Spots Gain inspiration from authentic examples of this strategy shared by teachers who have used them with their learners. Creating your own Bright Spots? Let's get them out into ...
2023 Impact Report
Mobilizing Toward Learner-Centered Education As a non-profit in pursuit of a vision for education ecosystems where all learners know who they are, thrive in community, and actively engage in the world as their best selves we are pleased to present our 2023 Impact Report. This report speaks to our continued progress supporting schools, districts, and states; convening networks of leaders, practitioners, and change-makers; and leveraging research to guide and inform the path forward. Enclosed you will find: A letter from our executives Partner network overview Impact stories from partner schools and districts Impact to date in: Research and Development Convenings ...
Strategy: Create Learner Jobs
Personalized Learning Strategy: Create Learner Jobs NOTE: This strategy is part of the self-paced Develop Learner Agency Course Learners identify classroom leadership roles, creating a sense of accountability for their classroom community. Learners can take on jobs like classroom photographer, greeter (for guests), birthday celebrator, historian, etc. There are so many ways that students can help! Learner jobs create a sense of ownership for the students and empower them to take on responsibilities that make the learning community function. Bright Spots Gain inspiration from authentic examples of this strategy shared by teachers who have used them with ...
