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- Category: Archives
- Category: Blog
- 3 Key Shifts from Traditional Grading to Competency-Based Learning and Assessment
- Education is Everyone’s Business: Bridging the Gap Between School and Learning for Success in Life
- A Spotlight on the UCSD + LCC Research Convening: New Measures of Success
- Flexing Your Creative Confidence for School Redesign
- Elevating Early Innovators to Spark and Sustain Statewide Change
- Going Beyond Assumptions: The Journey to Policies that Enable Learner-Centered Transformation
- How might we create learner-centered teacher credentials?
- Indiana’s Bold Step: Empowering Students with Employability Skills
- Transforming High School: A Collaborative Journey with Alexandria City Public Schools
- Great Teachers Make Innovative Solutions Possible
- Webinar Recording: Cultivating Meaningful Learning Experiences in Hawaii
- Updates from a Flourishing Research Collaborative
- Competency-Based Learning: Shifting from Grading Points to Assessing Learning
- These Pennsylvania Educators are Ready to Make Change Happen
- Get “Outside” With Us: Exploring Innovative Schools Nationwide
- Webinar Recording: Beyond Standards: Innovations in Competency Based Assessment
- Animalia: An Authentic Learning Project
- 3 Optimistic Predictions for the Future of Learner-Centered Education
- Ready-Set-Goal! Then Reflect & Repeat
- 5 Ways to Drive Learner Agency with Goal-Setting
- Elevating Learner Voices: Deer Lakes Students Share Their Vision in Video
- Leadership Forum: Igniting Limitless Potential for All Learners with Encinitas Union School District
- Navigating Our Future: The Revised Big Questions Shaping Our Research Partnership with UCSD
- Empowering Educators As Designers
- What It Means to Center Learners By Design
- How You Can (Almost) Have It All With AI: Optimizing the Balance of AI and Human Interaction
- Webinar Recording: Supercharge Learning: Unlocking the Learner-Centered Power of AI
- A Learner-Centered Research Triad Launches in Southern California
- Growth Through Connections
- Using Feedback to Drive Learning, Connection, Purpose, and Ownership
- All Goals Are Not Created Equal
- Leadership Forum: Reimagining the Learner Experience with Santa Ana Unified School District
- Scorecards: How Might We Measure What Matters In Schools?
- Getting from School-Centered to Learner-Centered
- Changing how students learn, starts with changing how educators learn
- Designing Units with Student Choice, Real-World Problem Solving, and Technology Integration
- Reclaiming Joy at the End of the School Year
- Webinar Recording: Revealing Our Secrets: Professional Learning that Makes an Impact
- 4 Ways to Increase Inclusion and Engagement When Allocating Resources
- 5 Tips for Implementing Learner Profiles
- Learner-Centered Connections Info Session
- How to Get Started Developing a Learner Profile
- Webinar Recording: Flex This Superpower- A Learner-Centered Approach to Engaging Stakeholders
- Can AI Solve the Uniquely Human Challenges Facing Educators Today?
- Webinar Recording: 3 Learner-Centered Professional Learning Practices to Take Back to Your District
- The Power of Networks
- 4 Strategies for Listening to Students to Spark Change
- Building a Guiding Coalition for School Innovation
- Scaling the Collaboration Pyramid
- What Is a Framework for the Future and Why Do You Need One?
- Empowering Digital Equity Through Digital Literacy
- Catalyst Collection
- 2022 Reflections and 2023 Inspiration
- Unlocking Leadership Potential with Coaching
- Webinar Recording: Framework for the Future, Don’t Try Leading Without One
- Remote vs. Classroom Instruction: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
- The 4 Elements of a Learner-Centered Experience
- Bringing Your Learner Profile to Life with Learners
- 5 Ways to Bring More Inclusion and Equity into Your Classroom
- Rethinking College and Career Readiness in a Hybrid World
- Inspiration from a Learner-Centered Classroom: 4 Ideas To Try This Year
- Elevating Student Voice with Technology in the Classroom
- The What, Why, and How of Learning Walks
- 365 Days of Learner-Centered Collaborative
- A Learner-Centered Take on Homework
- The Four Elements of Trust
- 3 Ways to Include and Amplify Student Voice
- Voices from the Learner-Centered Ecosystem
- We went to ASU+GSV, here’s what we learned
- Overcoming Objections to a Competency-Based Approach
- So You Designed a Profile of a Graduate, Now What?
- 4 Key Shifts from School-Centered to Learner-Centered
- Evolving Education Live Book Club Sessions
- Let’s Get Explicit About Whole-Learner Outcomes
- 4 Examples of Learner-Centered Leaders Challenging the Status Quo
- Putting Students at the Center: Fireside Chats with Innovative Leaders
- Lessons and Reflections from a Learner-Centered Year
- Why You Should Say “Yes” to Your Next Community of Practice
- Sharing Our Gratitude
- Stepping Toward Learner-Centered Education
- 3 High-Impact, Low-Lift Ways to Foster Learner Agency
- The Role of Reading in Learner-Centered Education
- 5 Ways to Foster Learner-Centered Innovation Through Professional Learning Cycles
- You Are More Ready for Learner-Centered Than You May Think
- Now Is the Time for Learner-Centered, Whole-Child Education
- Uncovering the True Purpose of Assessment
- Bright Spots Collection
- What’s Possible in Learner-Centered Education
- Inspiration for Co-Founding Learner-Centered Collaborative
- Peek into Our Learner-Centered Workshop Design
- Introducing Learner-Centered Collaborative
- When Learning Is Authentic
- Why Curiosity is Foundational to Learning
- What Does Your Ideal Learning Environment Look Like?
- There has never been a better time for OER
- To Engage Students, Focus on Connection Over Content
- Supporting Statewide Change Through Microgrants to Families
- Supporting Statewide Change Through New Models for Remote Education
- Supporting Statewide Change Through Virtual Course Access Models
- Supporting District Change Through Learner-Centered Leadership
- The connection between anti-racism and learner-centered education
- Reaffirming Our Commitment to Racial Equity and Inclusion
- Moving Forward Together: An Unprecedented Coalition for an Unprecedented Time
- How Learner Agency Impacts a Learning Ecosystem
- How Can We Make the Most of Synchronous and Asynchronous Time in Distance Learning?
- Leading the Way to Authentic Learning
- Do Your Assessments Improve Learning?
- Emergency Remote Learning: What Worked Well?
- Aligning Around a Common Vision for Learning
- 6 Ideas for Creating a Remote Community of Learners
- 6 Questions to Consider When Planning for Learning in Summer School and Beyond
- 4 Ways to Increase Engagement in Virtual Learning (and In Person)
- 5 Reasons Every Learner Needs Project-Based Learning in Their Life
- What Is Personalized Learning?
- Learning Is a Process, Not an Event
- How to Test Less
- Enabling Learner-Centered Education: Teachers, Technology, and the 4 Cs
- 3 Strategies to Transform Your School District Now
- Category: Case Studies
- Forsyth County Schools: Fostering Learner Agency in a 3rd Grade Classroom
- Logan County Schools: Creating and Realizing a Profile of Success Throughout a District
- Hawaii Public Charter Schools: Collaborating to Scale and Sustain Competency-Based Learning
- Mount Vernon School: Making Project, Community, and Competency-Based Learning Visible
- Wooster School: A Competency-Based Chemistry Classroom
- Space of Mind: Measuring What Matters in the Classroom
- Odyssey STEM Academy: Learning Beyond School Walls
- Category: Events
- Category: Impact Reports
- Category: Impact Stories
- Moving from Aspirations to Action with Learner-Centered Practices
- Developing a Framework for the Future Informed by Learners, Industry, and Higher Ed
- Getting from District Mission and Vision to Implementation with Learners
- Creating a Learner-Centered High School by Listening to Learners
- Creating and Realizing a Profile of Success Throughout a District
- Building State Leadership Team Capacity for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
- Listening to Learners to Drive Districtwide Learner-Centered Innovation
- Delivering on a Framework for Achieving the Gold Standard in Virtual Education
- Spark Online Academy: Designing a Learner-Centered Online Public School
- Embark Education: Rethinking Middle School Through Embedded, Integrated, and Learner-Centered Education
- El Segundo Unified School District: Realizing Personalized, Student-Centered Learning
- Category: In the News
- Category: Learner-Centered Strategies
- Strategy: Explore College, Career and Life Options with Learners
- Strategy: Provide Options for Accessibility
- Strategy: Make Thinking Visible
- Strategy: Provide goal setting frameworks and tools
- Strategy: Provide Learners With Tools to Prioritize Their Time
- Strategy: Create Learner Jobs
- Strategy: Explore Identity with Learners
- Strategy: Create Portfolios with Learners
- Strategy: Host a Defense of Learning
- Strategy: Host Student-Led Conferences
- Strategy: Host Exhibitions of Learning
- Strategy: Connect Learners to Mentors
- Strategy: Bring the Real World into the Classroom
- Strategy: Take Learners into the Real World
- Strategy: Design a Flexible Learning Space
- Strategy: Protocols for Reflection on Learning
- Strategy: Project-Based Learning
- Strategy: Encourage Retakes & Test Corrections
- Strategy: Co-Create Rubrics with Learners
- Strategy: Support Learners in Understanding Themselves
- Strategy: Use Tech Tools to Provide Just-In-Time Assessment Feedback
- Strategy: Use Tech Tools to Nurture Inclusion
- Strategy: Use tech tools to personalize instruction
- Strategy: Passion Projects
- Strategy: Create Learner Portraits
- Strategy: Provide Choice Boards
- Strategy: Create Playlists for Learners
- Strategy: Bring Students to the Table for School Decisions
- Strategy: Let Students Make Decisions in your Classroom
- Strategy: Provide non-verbal options for participation
- Strategy: Develop Classroom Agreements with Learners
- Strategy: Do quick and fun check-ins regularly
- Strategy: Host Daily Whole-Class Meetings
- Strategy: Move On When Ready
- Strategy: Data Trackers
- Strategy: Support Learner Self-Assessment
- Strategy: Use Discussion Protocols
- Strategy: Interview Learners
- Strategy: Give Classroom Feedback Surveys
- Strategy: Nurture Gratitude
- Strategy: Teach Self-Regulation Techniques
- Strategy: Use Art to Get to Know Learners
- Strategy: Conferencing as an Assessment
- Strategy: Checks for Understanding
- Strategy: Station Rotation
- Strategy: Using Exit Tickets
- Strategy: Cooperative Learning Strategies
- Strategy: Help Learners Teach Each Other
- Strategy: Lead Guided Discussions
- Strategy: Provide Peer Feedback Protocols
- Strategy: Strategically Group Learners
- Strategy: Create Group Roles
- Strategy: Group working norms with learners
- Strategy: Make Group Progress Visible
- Category: Podcasts
- Episode 29: What Makes a Great Principal? With George Couros
- Episode 28: Honoring Growth Over Time With Competency-Based Assessment With Bryanna Hanson
- Episode 27: Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences in the Age of AI with A.J. Juliani
- Episode 26: From Reactive to Reflective: Cultivating Learner-Centered Literacy Through Student Voice with Dr. Stephanie Buelow
- Episode 25: What Happens When We Believe All Young People Are Brilliant? with Dr. Sonn Sam
- Episode 24: The School Where Kids Design Their Own Education with Nerel Winter
- Episode 23: Can a Comprehensive High School Be Learner-Centered? with Melissa Agudelo
- Episode 22: 10 Years of Learner-Centered Innovation in Rural North Dakota with Dr. Cory Steiner
- Episode 21: Leading With a Learner-Centered Vision at Conway Academy with Tina Meglich
- Episode 20: This is What Happens When Everyone Gets an “A” with Monte Syrie
- Episode 19: Empowering Young People to Thrive in All Areas of Life with Kirsten Jones
- Episode 18: What Do Young People Need to Be Ready and Well? with Stephanie Malia Krauss
- Episode 17: Breathing Life Back Into Learning with Eric Chagala
- Episode 16: Keeping Humanity at the Center of Assessment with Buffy Cushman-Patz
- Category: Press Release
- Introducing the 2023-24 Learner-Centered Connections Cohort: Changemakers Leading Educational Innovation Nationwide
- Groundbreaking Research Partnership to Advance Learner-Centered Education: Learner-Centered Collaborative and UC San Diego Join Forces
- Superintendent Marlon Styles and High Tech High GSE Leader Katie Weisberg to Join Learner-Centered Collaborative’s Growing Team of Educational Leaders
- Higher Ground Education to Manage Altitude Learning Platform Partnerships Beginning January 2023
- Learner-Centered Collaborative Poised to Expand Impact as a Not-for-Profit
- Mission-Driven Learner-Centered Collaborative to Convert to Not-for-Profit Governance
- Education Leaders and Practitioners Announce New Organization: Learner-Centered Collaborative
- Altitude Learning Awarded Digital Promise Research-Based Design Product Certification
- Texas Learning Exchange Launches New Resources to Help Education Leaders Drive Success During Uncertain Times
- Category: Tools
- Coming Soon! Competency-Based Reporting Playbook
- Ladder and Knot Outcomes
- Scorecard Template
- Goal-Setting and Reflection Template
- When to Leverage AI
- Feedback Protocol
- Equity of Voice Audit
- Learning Experiences BINGO card
- 10 Questions to Ask Students
- Mini Toolkit: Competency-Based Learning Strategies
- Mini Toolkit: Personalized Learning Strategies
- Mini Toolkit: Authentic Learning Strategies
- Mini Toolkit: Inclusive & Equitable Learning Strategies
- Learning Walk “Look Fors”
- Authentic Learning Matrix
- Faculty Meeting Planning Template
- Identify Your Learner-Centered Priorities
- Continue, Start, Stop Protocol
- Evolving Education Self-Assessment and Conversation Guide
- ProtoCALL for Change Workbook
- Chapter 1: Evolving Education
- A Superintendent’s Guide to District Transformation
- 4 Guiding Principles for Learner-Centered Leadership
- Bright Spots Newsletter
- Catalyst Newsletter
- School-Centered vs Learner-Centered Practices
- Making Competency-Based Learning Visible For All Learners eBook
- Learner-Centered Leadership Introduction
- Fostering Learner Agency From the District Office to the Classroom eBook
- Chapter 3: Designing the Culture for Learning and Innovation
- Creating Authentic Learning Experiences to Develop Real World Problem Solvers eBook
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