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Blog
Transforming Schools blog series: Educating In The AI Era
Blog
| As AI reshapes the world, U.S. schools face an urgent reckoning: redesign outdated factory-era models of education.
Brief
A teacher talking to a group of students in a classroom.
Brief
| The science of learning and development demonstrates that when young people maintain positive school-based relationships, their learning and well-being is supported and enhanced. Secondary school educators and staff can implement practices that prioritize relationships and caring in order to optimize student learning, well-being, and agency.
Brief
A teacher at the front of the classroom with high school-aged students listening to him speak.
Brief
| The science of learning and development demonstrates the value of positive relationships for student success and well-being. Secondary schools can integrate structures to cultivate the conditions that enable healthy attachments to grow between teachers and students, as well as between and among school staff and students’ families.
Fact Sheet
A group of students working collaboratively on an assignment in a library.
Fact Sheet
| Studies link positive school climate to lower teacher attrition rates and several positive student outcomes, including increased academic achievement and attendance, higher graduation rates, and improved behavior. As a result, more schools and districts are collecting and using climate data to improve school environments and inform policy and practice.
Report
A group of students working collaboratively on an assignment in a library.
Report
| Studies link positive school climate to teacher outcomes such as retention and student outcomes, including increased academic achievement and attendance, higher graduation rates, improved behavior. As a result, more schools and districts are collecting and using climate data to improve school environments and inform policy and practice.
Blog
Transforming Schools blog series: "Putting the Learner at the Center" by Laura E. Hernández and Cheryl Jones-Walker
Blog
| The science of learning and development reveals how to design high schools so that learners can thrive in environments that support individualized development; where they have strong, supportive relationships; and where their social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs are met.
Brief
Close-up photo of the New Mexico flag.
Brief
| New Mexico supports community schools statewide, including in Roswell, where a middle and high school have created a nourishing school climate and culture by providing culturally responsive and restorative spaces, opportunities for student voice and engagement, and a social safety net to address out-of-school learning barriers.
Brief
Close-up photo of the New Mexico flag.
Brief
| This rural New Mexico district implemented the community schools strategy in 2021, emphasizing project-based learning, family and community engagement, and physical and mental wellness. Since then, attendance at school events has dramatically increased, chronic absenteeism has decreased, and the graduation rate has increased.
Brief
Close-up photo of the New Mexico flag.
Brief
| Since adopting a community school strategy in 2018, Los Padillas Elementary School has seen improvements in school climate, chronic absenteeism, attendance, academic performance, teacher retention, and enrollment. Their approach centers on culturally relevant and community-connected learning.
Report
Two high school students work together in science class holding up a model skeleton
Report
| A number of schools have been effective at rejecting the factory model and redesigning their systems to create safe environments with opportunities for exciting and rigorous academic work. Their successes have ideas in common, offering 10 important lessons for other schools.