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Posts by category
- Category: Blog
- What is the Purpose of School? A Call for Whole-Learner Outcomes.
- 4 Lessons From a Competency-Based Community of Practice
- Celebrating Bright Spots in Learner-Centered Education: Looking Ahead to What’s Possible
- It’s Time for a Change Management Model Built for Learner-Centered Education
- Webinar Recording: Bridging Systems to Transform Student Learning: Lessons From SoCal LiNK
- Lake Living and Life Lessons: A 12th Grader’s Reflection on Learner-Centered Education in the Upper Peninsula
- Can Regional Innovation Hubs Create a More Promising Future for K-12 Education?
- Lessons From a Principal: What it Takes to Build a School Where Students Drive Their Own Learning
- Building Bridges Through Change: Leadership Lessons for Summer and Beyond
- Webinar Recording: Learner-Centered Bright Spots: Making Learning Public and Closing the Year Strong
- A Learner-Centered Approach to Expanding Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment for Native American Students
- From the Classroom to the Cosmos: Passion Projects as a Tool for Real-World Learning
- The Impact of Innovation Cohorts: A Research-Based Perspective on Educator Growth
- This is What Happens When Every Learner Can Confidently Talk About Their Learning
- Purpose, Participation, and Feedback: What it Takes to be a Learner-Centered Leader
- Harnessing the Power of AI to Co-Create New Knowledge With Learners
- From Data to Storytelling: How Scorecards are Transforming School Accountability in Hawai’i
- From Kickflips to Critical Thinking: Designing Learning That Sticks
- Webinar Recording: Leadership Matters: Effective Techniques to be a Learner-Centered Leader
- Family Partnerships: A Key Strategy for Supporting Whole-Learner Outcomes
- How One District is Leading a Bold School (Re)Design Effort
- 3 Leadership Building Blocks for Meaningful Change in Education
- Webinar Recording: Reimagining Education Through Innovative School Design
- Rethinking Time in Schools: From Rigid Blocks to Meaningful Learning
- Why Stepping Outside Your School Could Be Key to Learner-Centered Change
- 6 School Design Elements That Will Bring Your Learner-Centered Vision to Life
- Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Partnership, Progress, and Possibility
- Distributed Leadership in Schools: Students as Ambassadors
- In a Learner-Centered Community, We Are All Communicators
- Operationalizing the Vision in Escondido Union School District
- The Listening Leader: Striking the Balance Between Receptive and Expressive Communication
- Webinar Recording: The Power of Storytelling in Building Engaged Learning Communities
- Building Relational Trust: Our Journey with Lamont Elementary School District
- Building Community Partnerships: A Strategy for Sustaining Learner-Centered Education
- A Spotlight on the First UCSD + LCC Research Convening of the 24-25 School Year
- How Hawaiian Charter Schools Are Honoring Identity
- Beyond the Classroom: Cultivating Local Partnerships to Generate Real-World Learning Opportunities
- One Educator’s Journey to Authentic Learning: Building Trust, Empowering Learners
- How a Small School System Created Big Impacts in Learner-Centered Education
- Webinar Recording: Creating Coherence and Aligning Systems Toward a Learner-Centered Vision
- The Power of Student Voice: My Journey on the D11 District Accountability Committee
- See Me, Know Me, Grow Me: Personalizing Learning for Learner Agency and Success
- Scaling Learner-Centered Innovation: It Takes a Community (of Practice)
- Homegrown Talent: The Strategic Importance of Internal Growth Pipelines in Education
- Webinar Recording: Competency-Based Assessment: From Measuring Seat Time to Demonstrating Learning
- Not All Rubrics Are Created Equal: How Competency-Based Progressions Are The Way to Go
- Measuring What Matters: Our Journey with Logan County Schools
- Report Card Redesign in Encinitas Union School District
- Unraveling Mixed Messages: The Impact of Misaligned Systems in Education
- Prioritizing Educator Belonging for Successful Learner-Centered Instruction
- Slow Down to Go Fast: 6 Pillars to Prioritizing Community and Relationships
- Why Mindset Matters in Cultivating Learner-Centered Change
- 12 Ways to Breathe Life into Your Portrait of a Learner
- 3 Key Elements for Cultivating a Learner-Centered Culture
- What Happens When You Let Learners Lead? Embark Learners Share Their Insights
- 5 Powerful Practices to Develop Learner-Centered School Leaders
- Webinar Recording: Personalized Professional Development with Lamont Elementary School District
- Listen, Learn, Lead: Start with Community Engagement
- 4 Practical Tips for Creating Coherence Within Your District
- Leadership Coaching: A Mechanism for Supporting Organizational Culture and Enabling Conditions
- Why Your Framework for the Future Needs These 4 Essential Elements
- Understanding and Influencing Collective Efficacy: The Key to Driving Transformative Change in Education
- Can Design Thinking Make a Large School District More Agile? We Think So!
- Reflect, Rest, and Rejuvenate This Summer
- Discovering AI Together: Lessons from a Learner-Centered Classroom
- Education Change Management: The Power of a Guiding Coalition
- A Spotlight on the UCSD + LCC Research Convening: Bright Spots and Networks
- Webinar Recording: The Future of Assessment and Reporting: Examples of Competency-Based Approaches
- Bringing Student Wonders to Life: An Interview from an Innovation Cohort
- The Transformative Power of Surveys for Learner-Centered Improvements
- Beyond Conventional Metrics: Telling a New Story Through Tiers of Data
- Webinar Recording: Supercharge Passion: Evolving Educator Capacity
- Designing Assessments with Learners at the Center
- 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
- 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
- Framework for the Future: A Catalyst for Coherence and Collective Efficacy
- Empowering Digital Equity Through Digital Literacy
- 2022 Reflections and 2023 Inspiration
- Unlocking Leadership Potential with Coaching
- Webinar Recording: Framework for the Future, Don’t Try Leading Without One
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Catalyst Newsletter
- Bright Spots Newsletter
- What’s Possible in Learner-Centered Education
- Inspiration for Co-Founding Learner-Centered Collaborative
- 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
- 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
- Leading the Way to Authentic Learning
- Do Your Assessments Improve Learning?
- Aligning Around a Common Vision for Learning
- 5 Reasons Every Learner Needs Project-Based Learning in Their Life
- What Is Personalized Learning?
- Learning Is a Process, Not an Event
- Enabling Learner-Centered Education: Teachers, Technology, and the 4 Cs
- 3 Strategies to Transform Your School District Now
- Category: Newsletters
- Bright Spots: Creating the conditions for scalable, sustainable change
- Catalyst: What is the purpose of school?
- Bright Spots: Announcing a new publication
- The Download: What will you continue, start, and stop doing?
- Bright Spots: Pathways to Teen Thriving
- Bright Spots: Permission to rest, reflect, and connect
- Catalyst: Making your learner-centered vision stick
- Bright Spots: Building community with San Diego superintendents
- The Download: What two high schoolers taught us about AI and human connection
- Bright Spots: Microschools belong in public districts
- Bright Spots: Leading through change
- Bright Spots: For teachers changing lives every day
- Catalyst: Is your team ready for summer?
- Bright Spots: This is what meaningful impact looks like
- The Download: Real-world learning in the AI age
- Bright Spots: This is how PD is supposed to feel
- Bright Spots: This student showcase will get you inspired
- Bright Spots: Structures that make authentic learning come alive
- Catalyst: What it takes to be a learner-centered leader
- Bright Spots: Taking time to celebrate learning
- The Download: Going all-in on learner-centered innovation
- Bright Spots: How one student’s voice changed a district’s AI policy
- Bright Spots: Grade-specific, competency-based progressions
- Bright Spots: Performing our best through competitive collaboration
- Catalyst: Now is the time for family partnerships
- Bright Spots: Student-led conferences at Conway Elementary
- Bright Spots: The Power of School Visits
- The Download: Are you ready to (re)design your school?
- Bright Spots: Fostering Learner Agency Through Microschools
- Bright Spots: Reflections on the Nation’s Report Card
- Catalyst: 3 leadership building blocks for meaningful change in education
- Bright Spots: Learner-Centered School Design in Action
- The Download: Is This the Key to Learner-Centered Change?
- Bright Spots: 3rd graders solving big problems
- Bright Spots: New research on student engagement
- Catalyst: 6 key elements for school design
- Bright Spots: Celebrating Portrait of a Learner champions
- The Download: Distributed leadership and effective communication
- Bright Spots: Co-designing a blueprint for success
- Bright Spots: Not your traditional flower shop (or high school)
- Catalyst: How to be a listening leader
- The Download: Bringing real-world learning to life
- Bright Spots: How to share gratitude in five minutes or less
- Bright Spots: Structures that make real-world learning possible
- Catalyst: Forming community partnerships for real-world learning
- Bright Spots: Seeing learners as more than a grade
- Bright Spots: How to know you’re on the right track
- The Download: Centering learners by design
- Bright Spots: Creating space to be our best selves
- Bright Spots: Combining real fun with real learning
- Bright Spots: 60 educators gather for a year of learning
- Bright Spots: Teachers celebrating teachers
- Catalyst: How to cultivate homegrown talent in your district
- Bright Spots: How crashing teaches us to fly
- The Download: Reimagining report cards and rubrics
- Bright Spots: Designing competency-based professional learning
- Bright Spots: The power of community forums
- Bright Spots: Back-to-school night done right
- Catalyst: What mixed messages show up in your district?
- Bright Spots: Creating space for curiosity and wonder
- The Download: Beginning the year with culture and connection
- Bright Spots: How to create meaningful professional learning experiences
- Bright Spots: Cultivating relationships with learners
- Bright Spots: Starting with learner strengths
- Catalyst: 3 key elements of a learner-centered culture
- Bright Spots: Connection before content
- The Download: Start the year with trust
- Bright Spots: Focusing on what matters most
- Bright Spots: Slowing down to go fast
- Catalyst: Creating coherence within your district
- The Download: Kicking off summer with a bang!
- Bright Spots: See them, know them, grow them
- Bright Spots: Change moves at the speed of trust
- Catalyst: Accelerating the pace of change
- Bright Spots: Finding passions and interests through reading
- The Download: End of year reflections
- Bright Spots: Putting people over percentages
- Bright Spots: What learning ecosystems look like
- Bright Spots: The impact of a teacher
- Catalyst: Telling a new story through tiers of data
- Bright Spots: How micro-schools create dual operating systems
- Bright Spots: The power of focusing on the whole child
- Bright Spots: Leveraging AI to meet learner needs
- Bright Spots: Pausing to move the work forward
- Bright Spots: Lifting each other up
- Catalyst: Policies that enable learner-centered transformation
- Bright Spots: When you know better, do better
- The Download: Doing the work
- Bright Spots: Developing mastery from the beginning
- Bright Spots: Responsible and effective use of ai
- Bright Spots: Defenses of learning in action!
- Catalyst: Creating coherence and alignment
- Bright Spots: Doing authentic work that matters, matters
- The Download: Get outside your boundaries
- Bright Spots: Keep pushing what’s possible
- Bright Spots: Permission to try AI
- Bright Spots: Belonging, trust, and flourishing in education
- Catalyst: The many benefits of getting outside
- Bright Spots: The workshop model
- The Download: Let’s talk AI
- Bright Spots: Learning by teaching
- Bright Spots: Little kids solving big problems
- Bright Spots: Who is doing the thinking in your classroom?
- Catalyst: Optimistic predictions for 2024
- Bright Spots: Give your goals a scorecard
- Bright Spots: Goal-setting and reflecting throughout the year
- Bright Spots: Making the most of entrances and exits
- Bright Spots: Keeping the kids the main thing
- Catalyst: Centering learners by design
- Bright Spots: Designing with learners
- The Download: It’s time to celebrate
- Bright Spots: What students wish parents knew
- Bright Spots: It’s here! A scorecard that measures what matters
- Catalyst: Seeing is believing
- Bright Spots: A learner profile explained, by students
- The Download: Ghosts, ghouls, and learner-centered resources
- Bright Spots: A groundbreaking research partnership
- Bright Spots: Outcomes from an innovation cohort
- Bright Spots: Agency, a throughline from classroom to career
- Bright Spots: Making meaningful connections
- Catalyst: How do we keep track of progress in a dynamic environment?
- The Download: Announcing our newest learner-centered resource
- Bright Spots: Participation strategies
- Bright Spots: The consultancy protocol
- Bright Spots: Career and technical education
- Bright Spots: A true turnaround story
- Catalyst: The power of community
- Bright Spots: Modeling a culture of joy
- Bright Spots: Schedules that make space for deep, authentic learning
- Bright Spots: Back to school bingo
- Bright Spots: Guiding your students into the new year
- Bright Spots: Reading, learning, and evolving is better with colleagues!
- Catalyst: When does learning happen?
- Bright Spots: Getting to know learners
- Bright Spots: Prioritizing play
- Bright Spots: Shifting professional learning from compliance to empowerment
- Bright Spots: The evolving role of the educator in the age of ai
- Catalyst: The power of a shared learning model for professional and student learning
- Bright Spots: The power of a network
- Bright Spots: The power of reflection and how to ensure it happens
- Bright Spots: Growing connections with our students and our own children
- Bright Spots: It’s always the right time to do the right thing for learners
- Catalyst: The importance of teams
- Bright Spots: A simple protocol to guide end-of-year reflection
- Bright Spots: Celebrating growth and learning at the end of the year
- Bright Spots: Unleashing the capabilities of learners starts with believing in them
- Bright Spots: Let’s normalize learning from mistakes
- Bright Spots: Celebrating 100 bright spots and counting!
- Catalyst: The promise of a both/and approach in education
- Bright Spots: The inextricable link of engagement and belonging
- Bright Spots: Realizing a vision for learners that transcends borders
- Bright Spots: The best middle school practices apply to all learners
- Bright Spots: Aligning competency-based assessment and reporting
- Catalyst: Let’s build upon what we’ve started together
- Bright Spots: The benefits of flexible seating and spaces
- Bright Spots: Learner-driven action research projects
- Bright Spots: What school can and should be
- Bright Spots: Learning from within and beyond for district innovation
- Bright Spots: Inspiring impactful coaching through 7 norms of collaboration
- Bright Spots: Hear from a learner-centered teacher
- Bright Spots: Sparking collaboration with learners
- Bright Spots: Enhancing collaboration with effective protocols
- Bright Spots: A micro-school preparing students to be leaders who make a difference
- Catalyst Collection
- Bright Spots: Defining a broader view of success
- Bright Spots: Integrating new models of learning
- Catalyst: A framework to come back to time and time again
- Bright Spots: Guiding students towards the future
- Bright Spots: The power of observing colleagues
- Bright Spots: Setting intentions for the new year
- Bright Spots: Rising to the level of our goals
- Bright Spots: Moving from survive to thrive as we close out the calendar year
- Bright Spots: Connecting students to the world around them
- Bright Spots: The power of classroom visits
- Bright Spots: Micro-credentials to support professional learning
- Bright Spots: Sharing impactful practices throughout a district
- Bright Spots: Cultivating authentic leaders
- Bright Spots: Connecting with those who lift you up
- Bright Spots: Empowering learners through a competency-based approach
- Bright Spots: Develop learner agency with personalized learning plans
- Bright Spots: Learner-centered is not a free-for-all
- Bright Spots: Empowering educators as learners
- Bright Spots: Design for learning
- Bright Spots: Engaging with parents this back-to-school season
- Catalyst: Looking ahead to a learner-centered school year
- Bright Spots: Putting your vision for learners into practice!
- Bright Spots: Starting the school year with meaningful connections
- Bright Spots: New school year, new beginnings in our practice
- Bright Spots: Evolving in practice to best serve learners
- Bright Spots: Rethinking what’s possible with online school
- Bright Spots: Celebrating 365 days of learner-centered collaborative!
- Bright Spots: Keeping collaboration at the heart of our work
- Bright Spots: Using models to move our ideas forward
- Bright Spots: The most and least interesting ways to use digital tools
- Bright Spots: Education is a team sport
- Bright Spots: Leading by listening, collaborating, and reflecting
- Bright Spots: Engaging students through meaningful connection
- Bright Spots: Empowering educators to create what they experience
- Catalyst: Spring into a learner-centered summer
- Bright Spots: A moment of connection and healing
- Bright Spots: Letting learners demonstrate their learning
- Bright Spots: Sparking agency in all learners
- Bright Spots: Celebrating teachers, now and always
- Bright Spots: Celebrating a year of bright spots!
- Bright Spots: Creating the space for learners to shine
- Bright Spots: Listening to learners to inspire what is possible
- Bright Spots: Meeting the needs of each individual learner
- Bright Spots: Empowered teachers empower their learners
- Bright Spots: The power of a graduate profile
- Bright Spots: Creating conditions for learners to rise
- Bright Spots: The ripple effects of professional learning
- Bright Spots: Sparking collaboration through community
- Bright Spots: Getting curious in the classroom
- Bright Spots: The power of celebrating our colleagues
- Bright Spots: Creating a sense of belonging
- Bright Spots: Developing student agency in the classroom
- Bright Spots: Learning with and from others
- Catalyst: Strategies for learner-centered leaders right now
- Bright Spots: Turning conversations into actions
- Bright Spots: Meeting all learners where they are
- Bright Spots: Happy new year! How are you feeling?
- Bright Spots: Sharing what we’ve learned this year
- Bright Spots: A simple strategy to get learners what they need
- Bright Spots: Learning beyond the classroom
- Bright Spots: A message of gratitude
- Bright Spots: Evolving in our practice through intention and reflection
- Bright Spots: Prioritizing whole child learning in the classroom
- Bright Spots: Connecting aspirations with practice
- Bright Spots: We rise by lifting others
- Catalyst: We can do hard things together
- Bright Spots: Reimagining technology in the classroom
- Bright Spots: Re-thinking assessment strategies in the classroom
- Bright Spots: Empathizing with learners to create new experiences in the classroom
- Bright Spots: Developing a shared goal for the future of education
- Bright Spots Collection
- Bright Spots: Celebrating success in the classroom
- Bright Spots: Measuring what matters by reimagining assessment
- Bright Spots: Reimagining the learning process to achieve better outcomes
- Bright Spots: Transforming your vision into action
- Bright Spots: Empowering learners to embrace their curiosity
- Bright Spots: Authentic learning experiences far beyond the textbook
- Bright Spots: Celebrating the release of evolving education!
- Catalyst: Possibilities abound in learner-centered education
- Bright Spots: Creating a culture that puts people first
- Bright Spots: How educators’ expectations shape learner outcomes
- Bright Spots: Collaborating for a learner-centered future!
- Category: Big Moves
- Physical Space Design
- Professional Learning Plan
- AI Principles
- Capstone Projects
- Master Schedule Redesign
- Developing Community Partnerships for Internships, Mentorships and Community Projects
- Redesign Educator Growth Plans & Evaluations
- Family Engagement Strategy
- Redefine Educator Roles & Responsibilities
- Exhibition of Learning
- Portfolios
- Student-Led Advisory Councils or Boards
- Defense of Learning
- Student-Led Conferences
- Advisory
- Design Competency-Based Professional Learning Structures
- Category: Podcasts
- Episode 44: Rethinking High School with AI and Human Connection (with Lexi and Reese)
- Episode 43: The Case for Learner-Centered, Universally Designed Classrooms (with Katie Novak)
- Episode 42: Effective Techniques to be a Learner-Centered Leader
- Episode 41: Reimagining Learning Through Co-Design and Agency with Allie Wong
- Episode 40: The Power of Joy in Learning with Dr. George Philhower
- Episode 39: Innovative Paths: Redefining School and Community Collaboration with Dr. Justin Terry
- Episode 38: 5 Years Later: Revisiting 10 Reflections on Change in Education
- Episode 37: Building Collective Efficacy and Insights on Transforming Education Systems with Dr. César Morales
- Episode 36: Clark Street Community School Student Panel with Ruby & Everest
- Episode 35: Designing for Belonging and Impact with Dr. Jill Siler
- Episode 34: Families and Caregivers Empowering Teachers with Sandy Cima
- Episode 33: The Power of Intentionality in Learning Communities with Gregg Behr
- Episode 32: Bridging Technology and Curriculum: Unlocking the Power of Aligned Learning Throughout a District with Dr. Lilia Náñez
- Episode 31: Aligning Your District’s Initiatives: How to Achieve Coherence and Impact with Dr. Rebekah Kim
- Episode 30: Empowering Learners Through Real World Challenges With Miguel Gonzalez & Meg Parry
- 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: Webinars
- Category: Impact
- Learner-Centered Collaborative’s 2024 Impact Report
- 2023 Impact Report
- 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
- 2022 Impact Report
- 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
- Evidence of Impact Report October 2019
- A Question of Trust: The Arcadia Unified Better Together Project
- Accelerating Learning with Research as Our Guide
- Category: Press
- Learner-Centered Collaborative Announces Co-CEO Leadership Structure
- 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
- 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
- Texas Learning Exchange Launches New Resources to Help Education Leaders Drive Success During Uncertain Times
- Category: Tools
- A Learner-Centered Ecosystem
- Mindsets Reflection Tool
- Community Asset Map Tool
- Learner-Centered Scorecard Guide
- Learning Experiences BINGO card
- Facilitate Empathy Interviews and Focus Groups Tool
- End of Year Reflection Tool
- 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
- 10 Questions to Ask Students
- 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
- 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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Strategies
- Provide Options for Accessibility
- Make Thinking Visible
- Provide goal setting frameworks and tools
- Provide Learners With Tools to Prioritize Their Time
- Create Learner Jobs
- Explore Identity with Learners
- Connect Learners to Mentors
- Bring the Real World into the Classroom
- Take Learners into the Real World
- Design a Flexible Learning Space
- Protocols for Reflection on Learning
- Project-Based Learning
- Encourage Retakes & Test Corrections
- Co-Create Rubrics with Learners
- Support Learners in Understanding Themselves
- Use Tech Tools to Provide Just-In-Time Assessment Feedback
- Use Tech Tools to Nurture Inclusion
- Use tech tools to personalize instruction
- Passion Projects
- Create Learner Portraits
- Provide Choice Boards
- Create Playlists for Learners
- Let Students Make Decisions in your Classroom
- Provide non-verbal options for participation
- Develop Classroom Agreements with Learners
- Do quick and fun check-ins regularly
- Host Daily Whole-Class Meetings
- Move On When Ready
- Data Trackers
- Support Learner Self-Assessment
- Use Discussion Protocols
- Interview Learners
- Give Classroom Feedback Surveys
- Nurture Gratitude
- Teach Self-Regulation Techniques
- Use Art to Get to Know Learners
- Conferencing as an Assessment
- Checks for Understanding
- Station Rotation
- Using Exit Tickets
- Make Group Progress Visible
- Group working norms with learners
- Create Group Roles
- Strategically Group Learners
- Provide Peer Feedback Protocols
- Lead Guided Discussions
- Help Learners Teach Each Other
- Cooperative Learning Strategies
- Explore College, Career and Life Options with Learners
Team
- Dr. Katie Martin
- Julia Foodman
- Allie Wong
- Danny Scuderi
- Holly Stipe
- Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard
- Traci Dove
- Dawn Aguila
- Dr. Nereida Prado
- Jimmy McCue
- Andrew Halter
- Sarah Schlatter
- Sonya Daugherty
- Danielle DelRosario
- Brekelle Beadnell
- Shannon Roos
- Carissa Solomon
- Arlyn Shelton
- Virgel Hammonds
- Laura McBain
- Julie Mitchell
- Kristen Watkins
- Dr. Cory Steiner
- Contessa Orr
- Dr. Pamela Moran
- Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D.
- Dr. Lori Gonzalez
- Dr. Zandra Jo Galvan
- Joe Erpelding
- Denise Espania
- George Couros
- David Cook
- Dr. Eric Chagala
- Erik Burmeister
- Dr. Leighangela Brady
- Jerry Almendarez
- Nicole Allard
- Melissa Agudelo
- Dr. Devin Vodicka
- Joseph South
- Dr. Frankie Escobedo
- Sandy Cima
- Paul Haluszczak
- Megan Parry
- Liz Perry
- Kelly Williams
- Kate Weisberg
- Joanna Libby
- Jesse Ross
- J. César Morales
- Catina Hancock
- Bryanna Hanson
- Brittany Griffin
- Andy McCranie
- Dr. Katie Martin
- Dr. Devin Vodicka
Testimonials
- “Inspiration of what’s possible when we come together to lead and learn.”
- “Implementation ideas for our own Framework for the Future Big Moves.”
- “Great ideas for building sustainable, small learning communities, creating teacher leaders, and student choice.”
- “Connections, Ideas, & Inspiration.”
- “Belief that transformation is possible.”
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- Ben Curtiss, Teacher
- Parker Collins, Teacher and Administrator
- Jenny Schon, Director of Academics
- Amanda Waldo, Director of Teaching and Learning
- Alysia Haveman, Instructional Coach
- Alden Thorpe, Gifted & Talented Specialist, Computer Science Specialist
- Katie Martin, Co-CEO, Learner-Centered Collaborative
- Devin Vodicka, Co-CEO, Learner-Centered Collaborative
- Carrie Rowe, Coordinator of Data & Assessment, Alamogordo Public Schools
- Dr. Lilia Nañez, Associate Superintendent, Ector County ISD
- 2023-24 Cohort Participant
- Erica Gonzalez, Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist, Illumina
- District participant - Laguna Beach Unified School District
- Teacher - Colorado Springs School District
- Dr. Lorraine Perez - Santa Ana Unified School District
- Teacher - Middlesboro Independent Schools, Kentucky
- Kim Kuklensi - Santa Ana Unified School District
- Rachel Gil - Santa Ana Unified School District
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Partners
- Mamaroneck Union Free School District
- Missoula County Public Schools
- Keith McCarthy Academy: Lake Elsinore USD
- Compass Academy
- Salinas Union High School District
- Bellflower Unified School District
- Kent School District
- Templeton Unified School District
- Success-Ready Students Network: Missouri
- Wiseburn Unified School District
- Davis Joint Unified School District
- Lynwood Unified School District
- Duquesne City School District
- Tamim Academy
- AERDF
- WIDE School
- Department of Workforce Services
- Vista Unified School District
- Utah State Board of Education
- Traverse City Area Public Schools
- St. Andrew's Episcopal School
- Spark Online Academy
- South Kitsap School District
- South Allegheny School District
- SEEQS
- Shaler Area Titans
- Santa Paula Unified School District
- Santa Ana Unified School District
- South San Francisco Unified School District
- Santa Cruz County Office Of Education
- Orange County Department of Education
- Nuview Union School District
- Northern Cass School District
- National School District
- Next Generation Learning Challenges
- Muhlenberg County Schools
- Morgan Hill Unified School District
- Monrovia Unified School District
- Mineola Union Public School District
- Mesa Union School District
- Mentor Public Schools
- Menlo Park City School District
- Malama Honua Public Charter School
- Logan County Schools
- Lindsay Unified School District
- Lighthouse Community Public Schools
- LPA Design Studios
- Liberty Public Schools
- Lamont Elementary School District
- Laguna Beach School District
- Kingsport City Schools
- Kentucky Association School Administration
- Innovative School
- High Tech High
- Hawaii State Public Charter School
- Hampton Township School District
- Greenfield Union School District
- Getting Smart
- Frederick County Public Schools
- Escondido Union School District
- Encinitas Union School District
- Embark Education
- El Segundo Unified School District
- Educating All Learners Alliance
- Ector County Independent School District
- Deer Lakes School District
- Design 39 Campus
- Carnegie Foundation
- Colorado Springs Schools
- Colorado Department of Education
- Compass Charter Schools
- Chinese American International School
- Chico County Day School
- Bonsall Unified School District
- Arizona State University
- America Succeeds
- Allen County School District
- Alamogordo Public School
- Alexandria City Public Schools
Courses
- Introduction to Project Based Learning
- Navigating AI in Education
- Evolving Education Book Study
- Learner-Centered Leadership Book Study
- Foundations of Learner-Centered Learning Experiences for Leaders
- Learner-Centered Leadership for Meaningful Change
- Partner with Learners to Reach their Full Potential
- Cultivate a Sense of Belonging
- Nurture a Meaningful and Engaging Learning Community
- Promote Anytime/Anywhere Learning
- Spark Collaboration
- Design Real-World Learning Experiences
- Design Performance-Based Assessments
- Use Assessment as a Tool for Learning
- Plan with a Competency-Based Approach
- Develop Learner Agency
- Amplify Learner Voice
- Customize the Learning Experience
- Learner-Centered AI
- Design Thinking
- Project Based Learning
- Learner-Centered Foundations for Educators
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