THE DOWNLOAD

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

Dear Educator,

As we head into the final month of 2023, we encourage you to celebrate all that has been accomplished this year. Celebrating progress (big and small), Bright Spots, and each other is core to learner-centered education and to who we are at Learner-Centered Collaborative.

This month's curation of resources is all about the why, what, and how of reflecting and celebrating on your own and with your learning community. We've also included some items we want to celebrate as they relate to the broader shift toward learner-centered education.

Enjoy!
The Learner-Centered Collaborative Team

P.S. Be sure to join us virtually on December 7th at 4pm ET for Learner-Centered Leadership Forum: Igniting Limitless Potential for All Learners

QUICK HITS

 🎥 Looking Back to Step Forward: After Action Reviews (2-minute read)

"In the face of so much uncertainty, one strategy is to orient awareness and attention retrospectively to help inform plans for the future."

📖 Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity (10-minute read)

"Podcasts are a one-stop shop for learning, as they are accessible and offer a variety of content that can be easily integrated into daily routines."

📖 Turning Point on Assessment Innovation? (3-minute read)

"Most notably, the US DOE recognized that our current assessments do not “always meet the mark” and celebrated the emergence of competency-based assessments..."

DEEP DIVES

📚 Use Assessment as a Tool for Learning (10-hour online course)

"Reflection is a key part of learning. In this online course, you will learn how to leverage a variety of formative assessment methods to modify a student’s path, pace, or product and co-design personalized paths with learners."

🎙️ Slowly is the Fastest Way to Get Where You Want to Be (38-minute listen)

"70 Over 70 is a show about how we make the most of the time we have left. Max Linsky talks to 70 remarkable people, all over the age of 70. These are conversations about the big questions we all ask ourselves, no matter how old we are. What does it mean to live well? What are we still searching for? And how do we learn to let go?"

🎙️ Self-Reflection and Social Evolution (51-minute listen)

"Darnell Moore has grown wise through his work on successful and less successful civic initiatives, including Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to remake the schools of Newark. And he is a key figure in the ongoing creative story of Black Lives Matter."

THE TOOLBOX

🤔 Protocols for Reflection 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."

🎨 Use Art to Get to Know Learners (access here)

"Five districts in the Innovation Pilot —  Anaheim UHSD, Cajon Valley USD, Davis JUSD, Lindsay USD, and Vista USD — have opened their doors to share their learnings on their path to moving their Graduate Profiles from “poster to practice.”"

💼 LAUSD's Portfolio and Defense Handbook (access here)

"The graduation portfolio and defense serve as capstones to measure a student’s readiness to graduate high school and be prepared for college, career, and life."

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH US

💻 Igniting Limitless Potential for All Learners (register here)

December 7, 2023 at 4pm ET | Virtual Webinar

🌴 Future of Education Technology Conference (register here)

January 23-26, 2024 | Orlando, FL

☀️ AASA's National Conference on Education (register here)

February 15-17, 2024 | San Diego, CA

SOMETHING WORTH SHARING

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