Doing It Yourself: From Independent Learning Plans to Organizing Your Instructional Path
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart and the Huffington Post on March 4, 2015. Student agency…
Shifting the Culture in Learner-Centered Environments
In 2012, the Maine Legislature passed into law LD1422, An Act to Prepare Maine People for the…
Driven by Student Empowerment: Chugach School District
This is the first post in the Chugach School District series. Continue reading the second, third, fourth,…
Bronx Arena: Innovating Until 100% of Students Graduate (Part 2)
This article is part of a series of case studies of schools in New York City. For…
Highland Tech Charter School – Putting it All Together
This is the first post in a series on Highland Tech. Part 2 is Advice From Highland…
The Power of Deep Discussions around Student Work
Originally posted on September 15, 2014 for the Center for Assessment’s Reidy Interactive Lecture Series. During the…
Mindsets and Student Agency
Originally published in the Spring 2013 issue of Unboxed, a publication of High Tech High Deeper learning…
Going Deeper or Going Further: Where Students Advance in Competency-Based Models
Originally posted Jan. 29, 2014 at The Christensen Institute. The crux of competency-based education is that students…
The Advantage of Separating Behaviors and Academics Through a Competency-Based Grading System
If we were to return to giving grades that are a combination of academics, behaviors, and anything…
Learning My Lesson
I had asked my ninth grade students to write a “last” chapter to the novel Seedfolks by…