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How can teachers begin to effectively and responsibly enhance teaching and learning through implementing generative AI tools?
This problem of practice offers three approaches that teachers can effectively and responsibly use to enhance teaching and learning by implementing generative AI tools.
Agency-Driven Leadership: The Catalyst for Change
This first installment in a three-part series introduces the concept of agency-driven leadership, exploring how leaders at every level can act as catalysts for change by modeling the focus, resilience, and growth mindset that make agentic learning...
The 4Cs: Understanding Agency-Driven Leadership in Action
This second installment in a three-part series introduces the 4Cs—Conceptual Understanding, Commitment, Competency, and Capacity—as a practical framework for agency-driven leadership, offering leaders clear entry points to strengthen the conditions...
Leveraging AI to Transform Teaching and Learning
Introducing a Framework to Guide the Change Process
This is the third and final installment in a three-part series that focuses on the process that helps leaders bring those conditions to life through the Friction Free Transformation Framework.
A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning (1st Edition)
Many educators and policymakers remain unaware of the basics of how online education programs operate, what an online course looks like, and most fundamentally, how students can learn online. This report aims to help fill the gaps, to be a resource...
How to Start an Online Learning Program: A Practical Guide to Key Issues and Policies
Starting an online learning program is a daunting task, which often can be overwhelming. The information and resources provided here have been compiled and organized to help you feel less overwhelmed. The majority of content on this site is...
Meeting Students Where They Are DRAFT 2017
This paper, written by a team from reDesign, provides school and district leaders with an in-depth exploration of the relational, pedagogical, and structural dimensions of meeting students where they are in personalized, competency-based systems of...
Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative: Cohort 2, Year 1 (SY 24) Report
The Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative (MBLC) is a demonstration project taking place in 47 schools in Washington State led by the Washington State Board of Education (SBE). The schools are receiving funding and participating in professional...
The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning
Online and blended learning has the potential to be a disruptive force capable of transforming today’s monolithic, factory-like education system into a new, student-centered, highly personalized model of education. Authors Michael B. Horn and...
It’s Not a Matter of Time: Highlights from the 2011 Competency-Based Summit
From Anchorage, Alaska, to Orlando, Florida, and from Gray, Maine, to Yuma, Arizona, one hundred competency-based innovators gathered at the Competency-based Learning Summit in March 2011. Because pockets of innovation were operating in isolation,...