by Rohan Menon | Dec 7, 2023 | Article, Blog, Competency-based Learning, Learner-centered Communities, Learner-Centered School Design, School Design, Youth Voices
reDesign’s Youth Advisory Council is a year-long program for high-school students with an interest in identifying, analyzing, and shifting educational paradigms. Students in the program work directly alongside our Learning Design Team to share feedback and ideas,...
by Rohan Menon | Dec 7, 2022 | Blog, Education, Society and Culture
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? Read the full article below....
by Rohan Menon | Dec 1, 2022 | Blog, Featured Insights, The Human Learner
The frenzied competition to monetize our attention is actively undermining our students’ opportunities to practice high-level cognition and meaning-making in the classroom. More importantly, it’s demanding that we build a new mental image of what “learning” really...
by Rohan Menon | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog, Education, Society and Culture, Featured Insights
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 | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Curriculum and Assessment Reimagined
by Laurie Gagnon & Rohan Menon 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. Let’s take a moment to revisit the two dimensions of...
