Why PD Must Be Learner-Centered, Too
Despite substantial experience leading professional learning programs and even more time as a kind of Student-Centered Learning…
Old Habits Die Hard: How to Build New Moves and Habits to Sustain Change
This post is part of a series inspired by the new report: Teachers Making the Shift to…
Sabotage! How Our Implicit Biases and Mental Models Keep Us From “Walking the Talk”
This post is part of a series inspired by the new report: Teachers Making the Shift to…
Caution: Change Ahead! How Harnessing Emotions and Motivations Can Help Drive Change for Equitable, Learner-Centered Education
This post is part of a series inspired by the new report: Teachers Making the Shift to…
Professional Learning Exercises for <I>Teachers Making the Shift to Equitable, Learner-Centered Education</I>
Follow the journey of Learning Community Middle School, a fictional school that represents an amalgam of schools...
Teachers Making the Shift to Equitable, Learner-Centered Education
We know that the traditional “sit and get” classroom will not help us advance towards educational equity...
Making the Shift: Why Is It So Hard to Scale Equitable, Learner-Centered Education?
This post is the first in a series that previews the ideas, theories, and research in the...
How Competencies Influence Teacher Practice
This is the second post in a series by Tommy Wolfe about the findings from his doctoral…
Competencies Help Bridge the Gap Between Traditional and Project-Based Learning
Tommy Wolfe conducted his doctoral research on how using competencies influences teacher practice in competency-based schools. This…
Hello From the New <em>Competency</em>Works Program Director
I’m excited and honored to have joined the Aurora Institute team as the new CompetencyWorks Program Director….