How will you use the lessons learned from this year to evolve your practice moving forward? There...
Learning and Teaching
The Impact of a Teacher
You know that feeling when you experience a breakthrough with a student who finally gets it or...
6 Strategies to Empower Student Agency Through Learner Profiles
Graduate Profiles, Profiles of Success, or Learner Profiles are increasingly popular as they can...
Challenging the Status Quo to Rewrite New School Rules
In 1999, the US Women's Soccer team wanted to play in the NFL stadiums like the men’s teams. ...
6 Questions to Consider When Planning for Learning in Summer School and Beyond
I was working with educators on their summer school plans recently. We were discussing what...
Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning
I talked to a middle schooler recently who is a proficient reader and has been participating...
10 Strategies To Get to Know Your Students and Create an Inclusive Learner-Centered Culture
I remember being handed a book of policies and procedures to cover each day for the first week of...
The Pandemic is a portal: What will you choose as your new normal?
Last week I was reflecting with some colleagues about how life has changed since March. Without...
Dr. Katie Martin
Dr. Katie Martin is the author of Learner-Centered Innovation and VP of Leadership and Learning at Altitude Learning. She teaches in the graduate school of Education at High Tech High and is on the board of Real World Scholars. Learn More.
LEARNER-CENTERED INNOVATION
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A Sense of Hope and Possibility
This week I got to host school visits that were postponed from March of 2020 (ya know, because of...
What I am reading, learning, and doing to inspire creativity and wellbeing
For the first time in my life (seriously) I have the house to myself for the whole weekend! I...
Redefining Success
I had the opportunity to connect with teachers this week who are reading Evolving Education. As we...
Creating More Opportunities for Learner Agency
Agency by definition is the power to act. But too often this is misconstrued as a free-for-all. We...