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PLEASE start using full spectrum evidence to measure and support student growth?

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Jamila Dugan (JD Learning Partners), Adam Carter (Marshall Street at Summit), Alcine Mumby (Envision Learning Partners), Andrew Calkins (Next Generation Learning Challenges), Nicole Allard (Vista Unified School District) at the 2022 ASU+GSV Summit. Initiative. Flexibility. Creativity. Critical Thinking. Collaborative Problem-Solving. To help young people develop into high-functioning adults, schools need to work with the full spectrum of evidence that demonstrates their development of complex capabilities. In this session, leaders of the movement to broaden our ideas, practices and policies on student-growth measurement ask ‚- and answer ‚- public education's most important question, today: What's most important to learn, and how can we best understand that it's happening?

K12 Workshop: Change Agent Leadership - Shifting the Fulcrum of Transformation

 

The epicenter of educational transformation is at the site level. Change agent leadership is an active approach to school transformation that flattens the organization. The role of district administrators shifts to servant leaders who focus on setting the conditions for transformation. The site principal becomes the agent of change. Principals assume the role of activator of change in their school based on the unique strengths, interests, values and needs of the school community. Principals have more voice and choice to personalize their learning pathway as they develop their leadership skills and abilities. With this approach, educational transformation is more authentic and relevant to the community. Principals have a greater level of autonomy to define the why, what, and how of change at their school.

 

Facilitators: Nicole Allard, Principal of Mission Vista High School; Krista Berntsen, Principal of Lake Elementary School; Matt Doyle, Assistant Superintendent of Innovation at Vista Unified School District; and Eric Chagala, Principal of Vista Innovation and Design Academy

These Schools and Districts Responded Adaptively and Creatively to COVID

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What made them so prepared? That's a key question at the heart of this research-backed session, where experts explore the flexibility, creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving that helped some schools adapt to the pandemic. Now, we'll hear how other schools can do the same—during the pandemic and long after. Andy Calkins, Co-Director, Next Generation Learning Challenges (moderator); Nicole Allard, Executive Director of Educational Excellence and Innovation, Vista Unified School District; Theresa Ewald, Assistant Superintendent, Kettle Moraine SD; Jenny Finn, Founding Visionary, Springhouse Community School

Making Hard Choices: Re-Adjusting Your Curriculum for Reopening School

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In this webinar recording with Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Nicole Allard, we'll cover:

• How to think about identifying and prioritizing choices in curriculum and instruction as we plan for school re-entry this fall

• Understand how districts and networks are collecting, articulating, and prioritizing the challenges and opportunities for re-entry in the fall

• Hear a district leader's perspective on their process for planning re-entry

Bravely Activate Your Portrait of A Graduate

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Inspired by NGLC's newest project, The Portrait of a Graduate in Practice, this workshop is designed to help educators take the next step around this inquiry question: How might we redesign teaching and learning to ensure all students have high-quality learning experiences that help them continuously develop the competencies in our Portrait of a Graduate? During the one-hour session, we introduced best practices with examples, provided resources and tools, and gave participants provocations to identify strategies that will work in, for, and with their school communities. Learn more about The Portrait of a Graduate in Practice at nextgenlearning.org/portrait-of-a-graduate-in-practice

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Transformation Story Vista Unified

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Staff from Vista Unified School District in San Diego County, California, describes their district's learning transformation, using the practices of NGLC's Transformation Design Framework.