CCE is a host partner for the Deeper Learning Conference!
Deeper Learning begins with reimagining traditional learning through immersive experiences—especially in the outdoors and with the arts. Our conference theme, A Nexus of Opportunity: Radical Imagination for Learning, recognizes the unique moment we are living in to create transformative learning experiences. Whether you are inspired by the outdoors, the arts, a new piece of technology, or an innovative curriculum—finding ways to think beyond our typical limits can lead to radically new outcomes for youth and families.
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Learning Refitted
A pop-up guide for schools and district leaders, this tool helps educators create meaningful, manageable and equitable learning and assessment practices during emergency distance learning.
This guide provides educators with a framework for driving equity-focused, innovative school change—along with the tools they need to bring this to life in their own school settings. Our framework aims to bind together the personal learning, process considerations, and design principles that drive sustainable, equitable school change. Visit the Building for Equity home page Download the guide
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Performance Assessment Blueprints
If you're looking for a good place to start your performance assessment design journey, look no further than these performance assessment blueprints. Developed by CCE staff, our blueprints provide essential questions, learning goals, and a detailed task summary that follow our quality criteria, which you can customize to your own classroom and community context.
What Does a Performance Assessment Look Like? Here Are Six Examples
What does a performance assessment look like, and just how do you design one? Check out these six posters featuring performance assessments from the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment (MCIEA), bringing to life the multi-step, often interdisciplinary nature of the performance assessments. These examples show the connection between the performance assessments and academic and 21st century learning targets, illustrate open-ended and relevant learning experiences, and elevate the voice of teachers and their critical role in designing engaging, valid, and reliable assessment experiences for students.
We're excited to announce the Community Partnerships for Teacher Pipeline! We're teaming up with three Los Angeles community colleges to recruit and support new teachers of color and strengthen the teaching profession.
"Adjusting to the new students allows them to know that they are valuable members of the community, and tells the more seasoned students that their school is committed to accessibility. " MCIEA fellow Ziane Roberts-Clarke walks us through the data she gathered during her time working with School Quality Measures, showing how Boston Latin School can create a welcoming environment for its incoming students, particularly among students of color.
