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Curriculum That Connects: 5 Essentials for Student-centered Learning

When it comes to curriculum in personalized, competency-based learning, it’s more than voice and choice. Here are five essentials for educators.

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From Collaboration to Collective Efficacy: Lessons from Emerging Leaders

Emerging leaders are learning how to move beyond collaboration to build collective efficacy that drives real impact in schools.

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Seeing with the Heart in the Age of AI

Approaching the Nevada Portrait of a Learner and the use of AI in education through the lens of The Little Prince

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