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Four Must See Sessions at SXSWEdu 2018
Four Must See Sessions at SXSWEdu 2018

We are fired up that a number of Yellow Hats are presenting exciting SXSW EDU sessions about accelerating innovation in the core design of school. If you're attending SXSW EDU this March 2018, check out these MUST SEE sessions.

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What we learned from bringing educators together to reimagine school
What we learned from bringing educators together to reimagine school

With a shared vision for building innovative new school models worthy of students’ potential and aspirations, our two organizations joined forces to launch the Transcend + NewSchools Collaborative. This ten-month, cohort-based program...

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Beta testing at iNacol: Personalized Learning Look Fors and Playbook
Beta testing at iNacol: Personalized Learning Look Fors and Playbook

Nationally, personalized learning is beginning to be piloted in pockets. Slowly, schools are realizing that the core of personalized learning has less to do with technology, despite tech being a common entry point to pursuing “innovation.” Rather, personalizing learning is about what good educators have always wanted—creating purpose-driven schools that help students live fulfilled lives. 

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Cultivating Classroom Capabilities
Cultivating Classroom Capabilities

What are the limits to your classroom’s capabilities? The beginning of a new school year provides a great opportunity for teachers to step back and reflect on the accomplishments of previous years. As a classroom, what were we able to achieve? Where did we fall short? What changes do we hope to make?

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Team Updates!
Team Updates!

At Transcend we care deeply about growing and supporting a diverse community of educators who are fired up about accelerating innovation in the core design of school. To that end, in recent weeks Transcend's team has grown with key hires and a great new board member. We are thrilled to welcome Jenee, Joanna, Anna, Tyler, and Trevor.

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From Reform to Reimagine: Join Transcend and Help Lead the Way
From Reform to Reimagine: Join Transcend and Help Lead the Way

We need to accelerate our move from reforming to reimagining “schooling” in the United States. We’re looking for team members to join Transcend as Partners - Build Models and lead our efforts to do just that.

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PISA, Internalizing Failure, and Barriers to Deeper Learning
PISA, Internalizing Failure, and Barriers to Deeper Learning

World rankings like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have emerged as the litmus test on how schools are and are not helping students succeed. Politicians, educators, and specialists dwell on American students' laggard position or Singapore's success. But what do students think of their own performance? 

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When Trajectories of Change Cross
When Trajectories of Change Cross

Trajectories are easy to draw, hard to accurately predict, and easy to miss. Think for a moment about how scientists at NASA might compute the trajectory of a rocket that must land on the asteroid Ceres in ten years. That calculation has to be...

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The Case for Transcend
The Case for Transcend

Authored by our co-founders, Aylon and Jeff, and our board members, Stacey Childress and Diane Tavenner, this paper describes a vision for better school models that prepare and inspire all students for long-term success, and an emerging theory of change for what it would take to support their design and spread in the coming years.

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Revealing the underlying power dynamics in the teacher-research gap
Revealing the underlying power dynamics in the teacher-research gap

Educational and pedagogical research is abundant. It accumulates in journals, academic texts, and newsletters. Experiences and knowledge from classroom practice are often equally valuable. However, neither teachers nor researchers seem to be able to bridge the daunting communication gap between them

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Five Thought-Provoking Questions from iNacol
Five Thought-Provoking Questions from iNacol

This October, Dr. Bror Saxberg and I joined forces at the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNacol) conference in San Antonio, Texas, to help educators think about how current and past research on the brain can be useful to schools in a presentation titled "Top 5 Reasons to Never Ignore Learning Science When Designing School Models.

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Five Reasons We're Pumped to Partner with Valor Collegiate
Five Reasons We're Pumped to Partner with Valor Collegiate

Our R&D partnership with Valor will help deepen, codify, and share their unique approach to social emotional learning and growth, called Compass, and the supporting SEL-integrated academics and professional learning.

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What Farmers in Tunisia Might Say About Education R&D
What Farmers in Tunisia Might Say About Education R&D

Let’s be honest: When it comes to breakthrough school models, do we really know what we’re doing? Or let me ask it this way: Do we know what is the very best way to do school in an information age?

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RE-INVISIONED, A New Conversation: Jeff Wetzler
RE-INVISIONED, A New Conversation: Jeff Wetzler

Transcend Co-Founder, Jeff Wetzler, was recently interviews by RE-ENVISIONED founder, Erin Raab, as part of their Education Leaders series (#edleader).  RE-INVISIONED is a movement to catalyze a new conversation about schooling.

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One Good Question with Aylon Samouha: Is there a silver bullet for the future of “school”?
One Good Question with Aylon Samouha: Is there a silver bullet for the future of “school”?

Transcend co-founder, Aylon Samouha, recently sat down with Rhonda Broussard from the blog One Good Question (and Transcend collaborator!) to discuss what's next in education.

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A Case Study Of Achievement First’s Greenfield Schools Year 1 Pilot
A Case Study Of Achievement First’s Greenfield Schools Year 1 Pilot

Dacia and Doug pictured an open, green field, with nothing on it and asked the question, “If you could build any school -- to develop the best prepared students in the world -- what would you build?” From there, the project took on the name, AF Greenfield schools, to signal the bold sense of possibility that the initiative embodied.

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A Master Class in School Redesign
A Master Class in School Redesign

“August means “back to school” for millions of students across the country. But this year it will also signal the beginning of an exciting new learning and sharing opportunity for a group of forward-thinking leaders from school districts and charter school organizations. They have one special thing in common: Each has an interest in rethinking school design...”

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#ADVANCEEQUITY: TEACH FOR AMERICA’S JOURNEY TOWARDS DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY
#ADVANCEEQUITY: TEACH FOR AMERICA’S JOURNEY TOWARDS DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY

Recently, Transcend co-founder, Jeff Wetzler, participated in a discussion at New Profit’s Gathering of Leaders, as part of their #AdvanceEquity initiative. 

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Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Learning in K-12
Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Learning in K-12

Transcend co-founder and Partner, Aylon Samouha, recently participated in a panel at the ASU GSV Summit: K-12: Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Learning in K-12.

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A Conversation with Jeff  Wetzler of Transcend
A Conversation with Jeff Wetzler of Transcend

Education Reimagined recently interviewed Transcend partner and co-founder, Jeff Wetzler, on what fueled his passion for education and where it's taken him.

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How to Accelerate Progress
How to Accelerate Progress

Board Member Bror Saxberg’s response to the publication of Dissatisfied Yet Optimistic, emphasizing the importance of evidence-based insights about learning and serious investment in R&D in new school models. 

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Signature Experiences: The Moments We Fall in Love With Learning
Signature Experiences: The Moments We Fall in Love With Learning

Co-founder Jeff Wetzler and Alex Hernandez explore magical learning experiences -- and challenge the field to design schools to create more of these powerful learning hooks. 

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How this Bay Area charter school network is reinventing education
How this Bay Area charter school network is reinventing education

This LA Times piece explores how Transcend Board Member Diane Tavenner set about reinventing Summit Public Schools -- to boost college graduation rates of Summit's high school alumni. 
 

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Frontiers in School Redesign
Frontiers in School Redesign

Cofounder Jeff Wetzler leads a panel discussion with visionary education leaders Sara Cotner, Jonathan Johnson, Chris Rush, Dacia Toll, and Diane Tavenner on innovative school models at Teach For America's 25th Anniversary Summit. 

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