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Starting Smart with Learning Acceleration: A Quick Guide for State Education Agency (SEA) Leaders
This guide helps state education agency leaders take practical, early steps to embed learning acceleration within daily instruction across their state. Organized around five foundational questions, it provides Hop, Skip, and Leapfrog actions that...
Deepening Student Learning in Three Kentucky Communities
The Aurora Institute toured three Kentucky sites in 2025 to elevate lessons from past work and to assess progress to date and goals for the future. Using document review, on-the-ground interviews, observation, and existing expertise in deeper...
Community Schools Case Study Project
Introduction We know that there are many models of innovative learning aimed at systems transformation. This case study series aims to explore the work of community schools, who take a whole-community approach to education that aligns with the...
Agency by Design: Making Learning Engaging
“Learner agency is about having the power, combined with choices, to take meaningful action and see the result of those decisions. It can be thought of as a catalyst for change or transformation. Learner agency is about students having the...
A Promise for Equitable Futures: Enabling Systems Change to Scale Educational and Economic Mobility Pathways
Fewer than one in five American students follow a clear and uninterrupted path from high school through college to career. The promise of a public education is to prepare all learners to engage in, contribute to, and achieve purpose in the world,...
Strengthening Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Education: Strategies and Tools for Professional Learning
This report describes Vermont’s convenings to support schools, districts, and other education organizations seeking to create high-quality local comprehensive systems of assessments. It can serve as a resource for schools, districts, and states that...
From Urgent to Future: Redesigning the Educator Role for the AI Era
This white paper reframes the debate about artificial intelligence in education by arguing that the central challenge is not technological disruption, but the design of the educator role itself. Grounded in research, field partnerships, and...
Pleasant View’s Journey to Blended Learning
Pleasant View Elementary carefully planned which components of its program it most wanted to change through blended learning, then adjusted to challenges and scaling as needed.
Designing Henry County’s Five Pillars for Personalized Learning
Henry County Schools created five core tenets of personalized learning to help schools identify primary areas of change in their instructional practices.
YouthTruth Student Survey Site
YouthTruth runs student experience surveys to empower educators and school leaders to design schools around student voice.
YouthTruth Sample District Experience Report
YouthTruth runs student experience surveys to empower educators and school leaders to design schools around student voice.