Esteemed Colleague,

At Learner-Centered Collaborative, we've been working with schools across the country to redesign their learning environments in alignment with their learner-centered visions. Excitingly, we're bringing our lessons learned and real-world stories to you with our newly published School Redesign Playbook!

From understanding why now is the time for school redesign to the structures needed to make it sustainable and learner-centered to redesign stories from real schools like yours, you'll want to keep this playbook on hand no matter what stage of the journey you're on.

After diving into the playbook, be sure to check out our other resources from October!

Enjoy!

How Assessment Philosophies Drive Calibration for Meaningful Change (6-minute read)

"Calibration allows assessment to serve its most powerful purpose: communicating a trustworthy picture of what students know and can do and the next steps to support their growth." ~Holly Stipe

Measuring Impact: How Surveys Promote Learner-Centered Change (7-minute read)

"By designing surveys with care, analyzing them with rigor, and using the findings to guide next steps, we ensure that the vision of learner-centered education moves from aspiration to everyday practice."

Big Moves: How to Create a Strategic Plan That Leads to Real Change in Your District (4-minute read)

"When a system has too many competing initiatives, implementation suffers and outcomes fall short. But when a system focuses energy on a small handful of shared priorities—what we call Big Moves—progress accelerates." ~Devin Vodicka

PODCAST: The Core Business of Schools: Providing Future-Ready Learning (56-minute listen)

"How do we work within our environment, work with the land, not against it? How do we find those great seeds that are already in the soil, those amazing teachers, those amazing ideas, the things that we can nourish and grow further? You don't ever get old-growth forests by cutting all the trees down." ~Dr. Babak Mostaghimi

WEBINAR: Durable Skills for the Intelligence Age with America Succeeds (63-minute watch)

"Gallup surveys are indicating that families seem to care less and less about standardized test scores. So why is that? Why is it that families are less concerned about test scores now than they were 20 years ago? I think some of it is a recognition that many of the prevalent assessments are from a different paradigm. Asking kids to do multiple choice questions in the age of AI, at a time when those sorts of questions can be answered quite efficiently, may be an indication that we need to reimagine how we think about assessing success." ~Devin Vodicka

COMPANION TOOL: How to Form a School Redesign Team (access here)

Every successful school redesign starts with the right team. This tool helps leaders intentionally build a group that represents the full school community and, together, will guide the redesign process.

TRENDING COURSE: How to Use Design Thinking in Your Classroom (access here)

Explore the process for liberatory design thinking through an immersive challenge with access to resources and tools that will help you build design thinking experiences with your learners.

DECEMBER WEBINAR: Community Conversation: Let’s Talk About Competency-Based Learning (register here)

December 9, 12-1pm PT | Virtual

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