Reflecting on 23/24 and setting big goals for 24/25.
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THE DOWNLOAD

Your monthly curation of learner-centered insights, tools, & resources.

Dear Educator,

Some months ago, we saw an opportunity to provide the learner-centered field with a practical guide to make the shift from traditional points and percentages towards a more holistic, learner-centered approach.

That guideβ€”the Competency-Based Reporting Playbookβ€”was officially published last week! As you create space to reflect on the 23/24 academic year and set your goals for 24/25, this playbook will be right there with you no matter where you're starting from on your learner-centered assessment journey.

Pair this playbook with our resources from June (below), and you'll be kicking off summer on the right foot!

Enjoy!
The Learner-Centered Collaborative Team

QUICK HITS

πŸ“– Understanding and Influencing Collective Efficacy: The Key to Driving Transformative Change in Education (3-minute read)

"Remarkably, research indicates that teacher collective efficacy has the greatest impact on student achievement compared to other factors like direct instruction, feedback, response to intervention, formative teacher evaluation, and teacher credibility."

πŸ“– Can Design Thinking Make a Large School District More Agile? We Think So! (5-minute read)

"...big systems are filled with people who have huge dreams for their students and hold brilliant ideas and creative solutions to pressing problems. The question is: how can a large system amplify the imaginations of its people?"

πŸ“– Reflect, Rest, and Rejuvenate This Summer (2-minute read)

"Research has shown that reflection leads to increased productivity. What if reflection was exactly what we needed in our moments of rest, not to lead to more productivity (everyone knows as educators we are already productive enough) but to lead to rejuvenation?"

πŸ“– Discovering AI Together: Lessons from a Learner-Centered Classroom (5-minute read)

"As I started to think about AI more deeply this year, I engaged in a tried-and-true learner-centered move. I designed a learning experience where learners and I could investigate AI and build new knowledge together."

πŸ“– Education Change Management: The Power of a Guiding Coalition (2-minute read)

"The implementation of the guiding coalition transformed our approach to change management. It accelerated our progress dramatically, moving from incremental steps to significant leaps forward."

DEEP DIVES

πŸŽ™οΈ Empowering Learners Through Real World Challenges (with Miguel Gonzalez and Meg Parry) (55-minute listen)

"Learning is human, [and my hope is] that schools feel like humane places where we can all show up as our full selves."

πŸŽ₯ The Future of Assessment and Reporting (40-minute watch)

"We're losing students when we focus on traditional assessment practices."

THE TOOLBOX

🧭 Competency-Based Reporting Playbook (access here)

"If learning truly happens anywhere, anytime and we believe it does not occur in silos nor in time boxes, then we must rethink structures such as traditional courses (or content/subject blocks in elementary), taught by one subject-area educator, to a group of learners who are the same age."

πŸ“š Use Assessment as a Tool for Learning Online Course (access here)

"Rethink the purpose of assessment and learn how to leverage a variety of formative assessment methods including quantitative and qualitative data to modify a student’s path, pace, or product and co-design personalized paths with learners."

πŸ’Ό Co-Create Rubrics with Learners (access here)

"Co-creating rubrics with learners ensures you share the desired learning outcomes for a learning experience and gives learners ownership over their learning."

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH US

🎯 Personalized Professional Development with Lamont Elementary School District (register here)

July 15, 2024, 2:30pm ET | Virtual

πŸ”οΈ Summer Institute (by Embark Education) (register here)

July 29 - August 2, 2024 | Denver, CO

πŸ”— View all upcoming events here.

SOMETHING WORTH SHARING

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