by Rohan Menon | Apr 25, 2022 | Article, Blog, Curriculum, Learner-centered Communities
In the United States today, we’ve inherited an education system that is profoundly alienating for many of our nation’s young people. The eternal, fundamental questions about education that such a system must address — What should education be? For whom? How? And why?...
by reDesign | Apr 8, 2021 | Adult Develpment, Blog, Curriculum
By Sydney Schaef with, like, major contributions from Jon Altbergs Maybe you’re a total rock star at creating compelling questions that frame projects or units of study. In fact, maybe you’re so advanced, your students are framing their own incredible...
by reDesign | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Curriculum, Pedagogy
by Jon Altbergs and Laurie Gagnon At reDesign, we encourage the adoption of a Learning Cycle that guides the learner through the habits and skills that support the development of competency with practice over time. In this post, we dig into the synthesis and...
by reDesign | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Cultural Responsiveness, Curriculum, Pedagogy
While the goal is for all learners to have access to text and materials that represent, affirm, and sustain their diverse identities, it is most often not the reality. Often classrooms are limited in their resources and students are stuck with textbooks that are not...
by reDesign | Jun 8, 2020 | Assessment, Blog, Curriculum
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically...
by reDesign | Apr 22, 2020 | Assessment, Blog, Curriculum
As part of reDesign’s #justonething effort to support (and not overwhelm!) educators during the COVID-19 pandemic, here is just one thing: a student-facing performance task guide, The Personal Statement: A Student Guide, to support learners in crafting...
