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Authentic Learning Matrix
The Authentic Learning Matrix is designed to help teams identify next steps, spark strategic conversations, and offer strategies for advancing authentic learning in your context.
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A Learner-Centered Take on Homework
This learner-centered perspective on the age-old homework debate reframes the question away from what, when, and how much and brings us back to our why and imagining the possibilities of homework from there.
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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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The Role of Reading in Learner-Centered Education
Literacy is at the heart of learner-centered education. Uncover how reading supports four critical components of the learner-centered education and contributes to student success.
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Why Curiosity is Foundational to Learning
If we want our children to develop new skills, knowledge, and mindsets, it is foundational to spark curiosity. Otherwise, even through our best efforts to teach them, they may not actually learn.
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When Learning Is Authentic
Authentic learning experiences can feel at odds with school systems and structures, but they don’t have to. Katie Martin shares how schools are pushing the boundaries to successfully orient toward relevant, meaningful, real-world learning experiences.
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Leading the Way to Authentic Learning
When students are engaged in solving real-world problems they are engaged in authentic learning. Gain strategies and examples for leading the way to authentic, learner-centered experiences.
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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…
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5 Reasons Every Learner Needs Project-Based Learning in Their Life
Real-world learning translates into real-world knowledge and skills. How can this type of contextual learning benefit your child?
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Enabling Learner-Centered Education: Teachers, Technology, and the 4 Cs
In this tale of two classrooms, VP of Professional Learning Katie Martin shares examples that highlight the evolving role of the educator, how technology can support powerful learning, and why we must empower students to drive their own learning.