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Faculty Meeting Planning Template
Modeling a learner-centered approach in faculty meetings provides examples and inspiration that can be leveraged with students. Develop the structure and content of your team meetings with this free template.
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Identify Your Learner-Centered Priorities
Which learner-centered experiences you are ready to prioritize? Personalized, Authentic, Competency-based, and/or Inclusive & Equitable?
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Continue, Start, Stop Protocol
A protocol for leadership and teaching teams that supports making intentional choices to prioritize, integrate, and do things differently, based on your vision and values, to help achieve desired goals.
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Evolving Education Self-Assessment and Conversation Guide
Capture your thoughts and learning as you read Evolving Education with this book study guide complete with activities, prompts, and protocols to use before, during, and after reading the book.
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ProtoCALL for Change Workbook
The ProtoCALL for Change is a 3-phase change management protocol built around goal-setting, learning cycles, and reflection.
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Bright Spots Collection
Compilation of learner-centered Bright Spots from classrooms, schools, and districts curated by Dr. Katie Martin.
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Chapter 1: Evolving Education
Katie Martin’s second book, Evolving Education, offers a deep dive into how educators can harness new technologies, learning sciences, and pedagogy that center learners and learning.
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A Superintendent’s Guide to District Transformation
District and school leaders can use this 3-part guide to learn strategies and best practices for leading transformational change. Please complete the form below to access the resource. Thank you!
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4 Guiding Principles for Learner-Centered Leadership
The principles and prompts contained in this handout are designed to support school and district leaders in cultivating learning ecosystems that empower all learners to know who they are, thrive in community, and actively engage in the world as their best selves. Please complete the form below to access the resource. Thank you!
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School-Centered vs Learner-Centered Practices
Educators and instructional leaders can use this table as a reflection tool to identify specific opportunities to shift from a school-centered paradigm to a learner-centered paradigm. Please complete the form below to access the resource. Thank you!
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Making Competency-Based Learning Visible For All Learners eBook
What does a post-industrial educational system need to measure in order to better prepare all learners for an era of accelerating change? How can we leverage a wider range of inputs for more holistic and actionable measurements of success? Schools are increasingly adopting learner-centered assessment approaches to measure academic and social-emotional competencies alongside new…
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Learner-Centered Leadership Introduction
It’s time for the education establishment to acknowledge that the world is changing too quickly and too completely to know, today, what every student should learn for tomorrow. It’s changed so much that even the notion of all students seems too reductive and liable to erase the experiences, interests, and potential of too many…
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Fostering Learner Agency From the District Office to the Classroom eBook
As the world continues to evolve and change, there is an increasingly urgent call to create schools that equip learners with the academic and social skills that are critical for success in work, life, and citizenship in our world today. Many educators recognize the diverse strengths and challenges that children come to school with…
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Chapter 3: Designing the Culture for Learning and Innovation
In the 2013–2014 school year, I was on Washington Middle School’s campus regularly. I was supervising teacher candidates at a local university, and as the newest member of the team, I ended up being placed at Washington—the most challenging of schools. I vividly remember walking down the halls marked with yellow caution lines to…
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Creating Authentic Learning Experiences to Develop Real World Problem Solvers eBook
Transforming education to best prepare learners for success in today’s world requires an intentional, coordinated approach throughout a learning community. Leadership sets the stage to create the enabling conditions for change, teams collaborate to develop educator capacity, and everyone—from the district office to the classroom—contributes to scale and sustain practices. Learning happens through life…