Your monthly curation of learner-centered insights, tools, & resources.
Dear Educator,
May is a month of celebration here at LCC. Partners we've been working with since last summer utilize our final in-person sessions to reflect on their accomplishments and envision what they want to pursue next on their learner-centered journeys.
We invite you to do the same with our newest tool: End of Year Reflection. This tool is for educators, leaders, and learners to think back on the school year and celebrate, reflect, and set an intention for next year. As you use this tool, yourself or with learners, be sure to include others. You can share your reflections with a colleague and ask learners to share with a partner to ask if there is anything they would add.
As you set your intentions for this summer and the next academic year, be sure to explore the resources below for sources of inspiration on what's possible!
Enjoy! The Learner-Centered Collaborative Team
QUICK HITS
📖 Bringing Student Wonders to Life: An Interview from an Innovation Cohort (4-minute read)
"All kids can do anything. You might have to differentiate, but all kids should be given an opportunity to do everything, and as an educator, I need to push their own expectations of what they think they can do."
📖 Beyond Conventional Metrics: Telling a New Story Through Tiers of Data (3-minute read)
"When a scorecard is aligned to the vision, mission, and values of a school or district and emphasizes metrics across all four tiers, a cultural shift occurs internally and externally."
📖 The Transformative Power of Surveys for Learner-Centered Improvements (3-minute read)
"By continuing to listen, learn, and adapt, we can pave the way for educational environments that are not only more attuned to the needs of learners but also more capable of preparing them to thrive in an ever-changing world."
DEEP DIVES
🎙️ What Makes a Great Principal? (with George Couros) (64-minute listen)
"If leaders are going to make these decisions that impact classrooms, teachers, and students, I need you to be around us."
🎙️ Honoring Growth Over Time With Competency-Based Assessment (with Bryanna Hanson) (61-minute listen)
"I was unknowingly holding this system up that was making my students focus on the points and the grades."
🎥 The Future of Assessment and Reporting: Examples of Competency-Based Approaches (40-minute watch)
"We're losing students when we focus on traditional assessment practices."
"The only way we're going to compete is to create a culture and environment where our teachers want to be here.
THE TOOLBOX
📚 Learner-Centered Foundations for Educators Online Course (access here)
"An introduction to learner-centered education, this course explores the evolving role of the educator and the mindsets and beliefs they need to create a learner-centered environment."
"This tool is for educators, leaders, and learners to think back on the school year and celebrate, reflect, and set an intention for next year."
💼 Protocols for Reflecting on Learning (access here)
"Reflection is a key practice for deeper learning and should happen throughout the learning experience to shift the focus from the product of learning to the process. Reflection protocols, which are sentence starters/stems or specific reflection questions, support learners in learning how to reflect."
