by reDesign | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Curriculum, Pedagogy
by Jon Altbergs and Laurie Gagnon At reDesign, we encourage the adoption of a Learning Cycle that guides the learner through the habits and skills that support the development of competency with practice over time. In this post, we dig into the synthesis and...
by reDesign | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Cultural Responsiveness, Curriculum, Pedagogy
While the goal is for all learners to have access to text and materials that represent, affirm, and sustain their diverse identities, it is most often not the reality. Often classrooms are limited in their resources and students are stuck with textbooks that are not...
by reDesign | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog, Cultural Responsiveness, Leadership, Pedagogy, School Design
Our world and communities have been hugely disrupted by COVID-19 and the illness, death, fear, isolation, and racism that have been heightened in its short powerful presence. Communities of color have been hit hardest of all by far too many measures: illness and...
by reDesign | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog, Pedagogy
As we all begin to imagine what the fall will look like, one of the big questions in many of our minds is how to build relationships with learners in a world where remote learning is almost certain to be part of school life. If your program is willing to think outside...
by reDesign | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, Pedagogy
The reDesign team stands with Black communities, Black Lives Matter, and each of the many organizations and individuals fighting to honor, support and protect them. We mourn the loss of the many fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters who have...
by reDesign | May 31, 2019 | Adult Develpment, Blog, Cultural Responsiveness, Pedagogy
Student accuses teacher of lying. Student is right. Nothing is done. Sounds like an event of a distant past? Nope. King Johnson’s recent note to his teacher this month reminds us, telling lies is not an aberration in schools, but a regular occurrence: I suspect...
