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Empowering Education: Competencies, Networking, and an Eventful Season Ahead
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From the State House to the Classroom: How Policymakers Can Help Bring Competency-Based Education Into Reality
Education leaders in Wyoming recently collaborated to transform the state’s education system with a competency-based...
Young Voices, Bold Solutions: Join reDesign’s Journey at SXSW PanelPicker!
We are thrilled to announce that our groundbreaking panel "Can Young People Solve the Post-Pandemic Learning...
Have you heard? We’ve got a new Insights page!
Check out our August 2023 newsletter to learn all about the features of our refreshed Insights page, our SXSW...
Seeing Through the Eyes of a Student
At the end of January 2023, reDesign began reviewing the dozens of applications we received for our 2023 Youth Advisory Council program. Together, they paint a picture of what students are seeing, hearing, and feeling about their schools and communities — and how to transform them for the better.
reDesign Announces Third Annual Youth Advisory Council
AUSTIN, Texas, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- reDesign, an education design lab committed to building inclusive,...
Application is open – join our user feedback group!
Check out this 2023 opportunity to join our reDesign User Feedback Group or to pilot our newest curriculum &...
Joy, inspiration, and reflections on the future of learning
Click to read reflections on 2022 from our Creative Director and co-founder Antonia Rudenstine as we head into the new...
Learning, To Protect Democracy
Underlying the quiet, but fatal erosion of democracy in our country is a stark reality — Americans have forgotten what democracy feels like. We need a new hub for civic education and democratic participation… why not schools?
Bloom’s Taxonomy & the Attention Economy
The frenzied competition to monetize our attention is actively undermining our students’ opportunities to practice...
Change Starts With Listening to Young People
Check out our November 2022 newsletter to learn all about our presentations at the Aurora Institute annual conference...
Designing Learning Communities That Support Women
reDesign is a woman-led organization with feminist values that strives to support women in the workplace as...
Toward Excellence and Equity: Educator Competencies
How do we know what good teaching looks like? How could defining educator competencies contribute to a...
We’re hiring – and designing new CBL resources!
Check out our August 2022 newsletter to learn all about our expanding team, our social impact grant award, and...
We’re Expanding – Our Learner-Centered Vision, Our Resources, Our Team!
$10 million dollar grant to support expanded social impact vision Team growing to scale-up our efforts to reimagine...
When Does Guidance Limit Learners’ Competency Development?
What’s the difference between monitoring and guidance? Why is it important to balance setting learners up for success...
Beyond Belonging: What Does It Mean for Learners to Feel Connected?
As humans, we’re biologically wired to seek connection to others. But what does it mean for learners to feel...
Fieldnotes: Diving into reDesign’s Competency Framework
As we got closer to a much anticipated trip, my five-year-old couldn’t stop telling everyone she met about the part...
The Price of Alienation
In the United States today, we’ve inherited an education system that is profoundly alienating for many of our nation’s...
Fieldnotes: A Look Inside reDesign’s Learning Labs
“What are the essential practices that we want to get across?” “Are these the right things to focus on?” “How would a...
Share & Reflect: Learning Cycle Series 5/5
by Laurie Gagnon & Rohan Menon At reDesign, we encourage the adoption of a Learning Cycle that guides the learner...
ESSER Funding Presents States and Districts with an opportunity to use competency-based education to #RethinkHighSchool
It’s an early fall afternoon in 2020, and I am meeting (over Zoom, of course) with the leadership team of...
reDesign’s Youth Advisors
by Rohan Menon & Vicky Kim At reDesign, we are committed to keeping learners at the forefront of all we do in our...
Navigating Standards & Competencies: South Carolina Profile of the Graduate in Practice
reDesign has partnered with the South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Personalized Learning to support...
Reimagining the Content Map
Would you like to learn more about our summer 2021 efforts to reimagine the content map? Check out our project page...
School reDesign Through 100 Disruptions
We are holding two truths in tension: one, that the uncertainty, loss, and suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...
How does the research define, “Learning Strategies?”
These days, it seems like a lot of folks are talking about learning strategies. When we ask people what they mean by...
A Research-based Set of Learning Strategies Every Educator Needs To Know
Last fall I got a little obsessed. I had been looking at the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and...
Schaef: It’s Time to Redesign K-12 Academic Standards. This Summer, We’re Inviting Educators, Experts, Academics and Parents to Join In
This article was originally published in The 74 Million. It was a blue sky kind of day in Boise, Idaho. Kelly Brady,...
Catalyzing Curriculum Redesign and Developing a Multicultural, Antiracist K-12 Content Map
Orignally published by Aurora Institute This summer, from June 27 – July 1, reDesign is convening approximately 100...
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