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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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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...”
Recently, Transcend co-founder, Jeff Wetzler, participated in a discussion at New Profit’s Gathering of Leaders, as part of their #AdvanceEquity initiative.
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.
Education Reimagined recently interviewed Transcend partner and co-founder, Jeff Wetzler, on what fueled his passion for education and where it's taken him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transcend’s point of view on the eight most important changes and principles that should animate innovation in school model design.
Board member Stacey Childress comments on encouraging findings from a study recently released by The RAND Corporation with new evidence on the impact of personalized learning on students’ academic progress.
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?