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Mastery Charter Schools: Getting Inspired by Blended Learning and Digital Literacy
Mastery Charter Schools envisions a future of confident, independent learners supported by personalized, blended, and culturally responsive teaching and authentic relationships with adults. To achieve this vision, Mastery knew it would have to...
Mastery Charter Schools: Getting Inspired by Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogy
Mastery Charter Schools has a clear commitment to equity – its vision is to be a model anti-racist school district. To live out this commitment, Mastery seeks to provide affirming, engaging, and culturally relevant learning experiences for all...
Monterey Peninsula: Getting Inspired by Relationships Between Students and Adults
Through their redesign work, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District has explored deepening personal relationships and students’ feelings of connection within the school community. The design team knew that such personal relationships and feeling...
Activity: Get Inspired! Explore Innovative Schools
When designing change, teams look externally to glean best practices from other districts and schools that have implemented strategies to increase equity and resiliency in teaching and learning.
Mastery Charter Schools: Connecting Empathy Interviews and Blended Learning
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. Themes from...
Monterey Peninsula: Connecting Empathy Interviews and School Culture
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. Themes from...
Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
When designing change, teams make sense of input and feedback from students, families, teachers, and classified staff to identify what changes are needed and what those changes might look like.
Stanford d.School: “How Might We” Questions
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning). This guide from Stanford d.school will help you translate...
Monterey Peninsula: Brainstorming Ideas for Flexibility, Personalization, and Student Sense of Belonging
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we increase flexibility and personalization to build a sense of belonging and connection within the context of our labor and policy...
Mastery Charter School: Student Independence Through Blended Learning
Mastery Charter Schools sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we build a blended learning model that fosters achievement and independence in our high school students?” The team decided on a solution that would focus on...
