By Gabriela StitelerNow more than ever, educators are asking themselves: How do we deeply engage students in their own learning? How can we keep students invested and curious about the world around them? How do we ensure that learning experiences are relevant? How do we provide multiple pathways to meet each student where they are […]
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By Clyde ColeIn the 2024-2025 academic year, I had the privilege of working on four distinct BIPOC affinity groups for Great Schools Partnership (GSP), each serving a vital role in supporting professionals across various educational and professional sectors. These groups provided essential spaces for community building, shared learning, and personal growth among Black, Indigenous, and
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By: Emily Gilmore HurwitzOn July 1st, 2025, a new era of education in Vermont began. Building off of Act 77 in 2013, the updated Education Quality Standards (EQS) empowers schools and educators to better meet each student’s cultural, linguistic, and academic needs. The updated EQS reads like a love letter to teaching. The standards reflect
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Exploring the importance of indigenous-led education by Aquinnah Wampanoag citizen Brad Lopes (pictured above).For over 10,000 years, community-centered and culturally aligned education systems existed across Turtle Island, otherwise known as North America. From one Indigenous community to another, children experienced the transfer of knowledge by their elders and knowledge keepers in a system of education
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On May 6, more than 40 schools in Washington came together for a spring gathering that felt both like a celebration and an energizer for Washington State’s Mastery Based Learning Collaborative (MBLC). The MBLC is funded and supported by Washington’s State Board of Education (SBE) and coached by Great Schools Partnership (GSP) throughout the state
Picture courtesy of Edutopia. For the past 6 years, GSP has been supporting the city of Springfield, MA, in developing and implementing the Springfield Portrait of a Graduate. While many districts write portraits, seeking to establish a collective vision of skills and attributes that the community hopes students will develop, many portraits are written with
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An in-depth look at June’s More than a Seat at the Table podcast episode by GSP Coaching Associate and DEW Collaborative Member Darthula Mathews. Please, have a seat at the table, and let’s talk. At the heart of the Diversifying the Educator Workforce (DEW) Collaborative’s work is a rock-solid belief: diversity in the educator workforce isn’t just a
The Great School Partnership’s School Redesign in Action (SRIA) 2025 was held on April 8th at the Boston Marriott in Newton, Massachusetts, bringing educators from across New England together to connect around their shared vision of educational excellence.This year’s theme was “From Action to Impact.” As GSP Executive Director Paulina Murton noted in her opening
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An in-depth look at April’s More than a Seat at the Table podcast episode by host, Darthula Mathews.The Great School Partnership’s Diversifying the Educator Workforce (DEW) Collaborative has a deep commitment to educational equity, and we firmly believe that a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse educator workforce is vital to improving learning for all students.
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Multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) is a framework designed to provide individualized support to students to ensure that they are able to learn and grow academically, socially, and behaviorally. The three tiers of MTSS work together as follows:Tier one is universal: It is curriculum and instruction that is accessible, engaging, and standards-aligned. Materials are reflective of
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