Convening Storytelling Team
Building Belonging at Arise High School
What does it mean to feel like you belong? It can be hard to define and even harder to measure. Yet, all humans feel the need to belong–...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Sep 4
- 4 min
The Power of Student Defenses
In May 2024, the Assessment for Learning Community gathered in Oakland, California, to continue our exploration of the question: How do...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Sep 4
- 2 min
Poems from Oakland
In May 2024, the Assessment for Learning Community gathered in Oakland, California, to continue our exploration of the question: How do...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Aug 7
- 4 min
What Matters, What's Possible
In our final story from our Assessment for Learning Convening in Aurora, CO, we share a provocation from Maria Kaimana of Envision...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Jul 23
- 2 min
Tell Me About New Legacy Charter School
Today, we share with you Maria's thoughtful poem about her visit to New Legacy Charter School. As we bring our stories from the Aurora...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Jun 18
- 3 min
Letter to Past Self
Dear Amanda, The time seems to be moving far too slowly as you anticipate graduation, college acceptances, and life to begin. You are...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Jun 12
- 2 min
Stuck in the Split Space
Below you can read Hannah Griffith's poem Stuck in the Split Space in her own hand from her journal. Click on any image to enlarge. A...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Jun 5
- 4 min
Focusing on the "WHY"
In this week’s AFL Stories from Aurora, there is a focus on WHY–why educators do the work they do, why the Assessment for Learning...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- May 29
- 3 min
Connecting Grading and Learning
For this week’s AFL Stories from Aurora, Colorado, we are sharing stories that call into question the connection between grading and...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- May 8
- 4 min
Creating Embodied Learning Spaces
For this week’s AFL Stories from Aurora, we are sharing two reflections from educators. In Yvette Lanari’s, “Four Weeks,” she shares the...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- May 1
- 4 min
The Power of Choice
Education has long been criticized for its rigid, teacher-centered approach, where students passively receive information and regurgitate...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Reflections on Grading Inspired by New Legacy Charter School
Paul shares a slide deck on thoughts that came up about grading while in Aurora. Please click on the gallery to view it larger....
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Apr 23
- 2 min
Inspirations from the AFL Convening in January
Following the two day journey of the Assessment for Learning convening in Aurora in January 2024, our team felt motivated to enact change...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Apr 18
- 3 min
Challenges, Identity, and Hope
For this week’s AFL Stories from Aurora, we are sharing two poems from members of the Assessment For Learning Community. In Hannah...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Letter to Daniel
Dear Daniel, It began with a couple texts to your mom letting her know you weren’t in school. After all, as a mom of boys your age, I...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Apr 2
- 4 min
New Legacies + Adjacent Possibilities: Jigsawing Prototypes
According to popular science author and media theorist Steven Johnson, the “adjacent possible” is a space at “the edges of the present...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Mar 26
- 4 min
Designed with Love: Empowering Parents for Real-World Success
The emotions bubbled up in my voice as I went to ask a question and I had to pause before I spoke. The young woman sitting in front of me...
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Convening Storytelling Team
- Mar 20
- 3 min
AFL Voices: Stories from Aurora
Rita Harvey Center for Innovation in Education For the 2024 year of learning, the Assessment for Learning Community is zooming in on two...
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Gary Chapin
- Sep 29, 2023
- 4 min
Experiences of Our Storytellers
By Gary Chapin Writer, Educating for Good In November, we came up with a plan. While another part of the Assessment for Learning team was...
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Gary Chapin
- Sep 26, 2023
- 5 min
Our Plan Came Together
By Gary Chapin Writer, Educating for Good “I love it when a plan comes together.” — Hannibal Smith, The A-team, 1983 In November, we came...
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