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Access cutting edge tools, resources, and frameworks—designed with the heart and brain in mind.

Featured Curricular Resource

Sample 6-12 Unit of Study

  • Topic: Teaching Climate Change in ELA and Social Studies
  • Inquiry: Explore local climate change projects through the lens of key climate literacy concepts
  • Task: Speculative Fiction and Eco-Memoir
  • Access: Open source, adaptable

Example Corporate Resources

How do we ensure clear expectations for employees? This employee one-pager clarifies the What, Why, and How of quality feedback to support this company's focus on peer-to-peer feedback.
How do we help employees monitor their growth and performance? This Learning Progression & Reflection Tool provides transparent language for understanding performance—and clear, stable language for tracking growth.
Infographic titled Stages of Learning: How does the brain actually learn new stuff? The graphic shows four interconnected stages arranged around a circular arrow cycle.
How do we support research-aligned learning design? This resource, created to help level up an HR department's internal learning design, defines the four cognitive stages of learning—each essential to moving from "just taught" to "deeply learned."

Learning Design Resources

How do we create learning objectives that "bloom" toward high-order thinking? This one-pager provides an overview of the cognitive domain of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, as well as helpful action verbs to support your instructional planning.
What's the secret sauce to designing authentic assessments? In this friendly one-pager, we break down the four key dimensions of authenticity to help you design performance tasks with purpose and impact.
How can we structure unit plans or projects for flexibility, choice, collaboration, and rigor? Check out this unit phases tool for organizing your learning experiences into stages that reflect how deep and meaningful learning happens.
What are the key features of a quality performance assessment? Check out this simple one-page overview of quality elements of performance assessment, including a quality checklist to support design.
One page document, titled Brain Leaders - An executive functions+ framework.
What are the most essential skills of lifelong learning and personal leadership? Explore our "Brain Leaders" framework that makes Executive Functions and metacognition—a mouthful, we know—memorable, career-connected, and always strengths-based.
How do we design for belonging? In this friendly two-pager, we unpack the six social interaction needs for building safe, inclusive learning environments.

Example "Concept Briefs"

The Big Ideas: Climate Education This visual concept brief provides students with a one-page overview of the five key concepts in climate education.
The Big Ideas: Critical Media Literacy This visual concept brief provide students with a one-page overview of five key concepts in critical literacy education.
The Big Ideas: Digital Health and Literacy This visual concept brief provides students with the five key concepts in digital health and literacy.
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