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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...
Discovery-based Mathematics
At reDesign, our approach to math education is rooted in a set of research-supported theories and practices that best...
Our approach to catalyzing a multicultural, antiracist K-12 content map
By Sydney Schaef In an earlier post, my colleagues Jon Altbergs and Laurie Gagnon named the challenge of...
#JustOneThing: How to craft a compelling question
A quick preview of #justonething: reDesign’s open source Design Guide for Creating Compelling Questions.
Demonstrate Skills and Understanding by Creating Authentic Products
By Jon M Altbergs and Laurie Gagnon At reDesign, we encourage the adoption of a Learning Cycle that guides the learner...
Build New Knowledge, Skills, and Perspectives through Investigation
Build New Knowledge, Skills, and Perspectives through Investigation By Jon M Altbergs and Laurie Gagnon At reDesign,...
Join us at the Aurora Institute Symposium 2020 | October 27, 2020 at 1:30-2:30 PM ET
Meeting Students Where They Are: Competency-Based Pedagogy that Works for Remote and In-Person Learning. We’ve teamed...
Creating Engagement and Connectedness through Making Meaning
by Jon M Altbergs & Laurie Gagnon At reDesign, we encourage the adoption of a Learning Cycle that guides the...
reDesign’s Youth Advisory Council
by Vicky Kim reDesign is setting up a 10-member Youth Advisory Council this year for high school students across the...
Completing the Learning Loop: The Power of Synthesis and Reflection Prompts
by Jon Altbergs and Laurie Gagnon At reDesign, we encourage the adoption of a Learning Cycle that guides the learner...
Small Disruption #1: Disrupt the text
While the goal is for all learners to have access to text and materials that represent, affirm, and sustain their...
School Redesign through 100 Disruptions
Our world and communities have been hugely disrupted by COVID-19 and the illness, death, fear, isolation, and racism...
5 Ways to Connect with Learners IRL (in real life) and remotely this fall
As we all begin to imagine what the fall will look like, one of the big questions in many of our minds is how to build...
#JustOneThing: Documentary Film-making: Amplifying Student Voices and Passions
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into...
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
The reDesign team stands with Black communities, Black Lives Matter, and each of the many organizations and...
What is there to say when the world is out of control? A Student Guide to Writing a Personal Statement
As part of reDesign's #justonething effort to support (and not overwhelm!) educators during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Why Are the First Several Years of Teaching So Difficult? How Schools Can Stop Failing Novice Teachers
“Fraternity hazing” is how one article in the Atlantic characterized the experiences of first year teachers. The...
Teacher Growing Pains
Student accuses teacher of lying. Student is right. Nothing is done. Sounds like an event of a distant past? Nope....
Driving Instruction with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: CRP and the Competency-based Learning Cycle
In an October blog post, Everything I’ve Ever Needed to Know About Teaching, I Learned From Black Women: A Recommended...
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