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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Leading With Courage and Commitment: Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Schools
Over the past two decades, many school districts across the United States have engaged in some form of ‘equity work’ in an effort to change persistent racialized patterns in student experience and achievement. Communities have engaged in a wide range of efforts to increase opportunity and expand educational excellence and equity. While the impacts of…
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Learning Partnerships
Each school has a “sphere of success,” a set of students for whom current practices are working to get on the path to college and career-readiness. Regardless of how successful a school is, not every child is within its sphere of success. In order to bring increasing numbers of young people into that sphere, educators…
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Leading for Equity Framework
Our Leading for Equity Framework provides a frame of reference that enables leaders to navigate the complex territory of equity challenges and to develop the capacity to engage in purposeful leadership action. In its simplest form, the Framework helps build habits of mind that are continually in practice. In its more elaborated form, it provides…
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Liberatory Design Framework
Liberatory Design is an approach to addressing equity challenges and change efforts in complex systems. It is a process and practice to: Create designs that help interrupt inequity and increase opportunity for those most impacted by oppression Transform power by shifting the relationships between those who hold power to design and those impacted by these…
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Partner with BIPOC Youth to Make School Better for Everyone
When we listen to young people who are not experiencing belonging and success in the current system of school, and co-design both micro- and macro-innovations in partnership with them, trust is built, healing occurs, and the changes implemented benefit all young people.
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
10 Dimensions of Equity
Our framework includes 10 dimensions to equip you — in partnership with other education leaders and advocates — with a foundation for unlocking better, more equitable school experiences for children in your community.
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Design Principles for Schools: Putting the Science of Learning and Development Into Action
The Design Principles for Schools is a new playbook that aims to support K-12 educators and youth-serving professionals in transforming all learning settings to meet the acute needs we are facing right now and also provide a solid down payment on the better, more equitable education system we need for our kids and their futures.
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Design Principles for Community-Based Settings: Putting the Science of Learning and Development Into Action
This playbook suggests a set of design principles that were developed by a group of educators, practitioners, scientists, and parents, building on the knowledge we have today and the contributions of many in the field to nurture innovations, new models, and new enabling policies
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
How the Science of Learning and Development Can Transform Education
Initial lessons from contemporary research that have significant implications for those working to advance opportunity, equity, learning, and youth development.