Research & Resources
Academic Buoyancy and Resilience for Diverse Students Around the World
This policy paper presents findings from a wide range of literature on academic resilience in primary and secondary education to help shape the approach schools can take to support diverse students. We focus on different types of challenges that students…Growth Mindset Thinking and Beliefs in Teaching and Learning
This policy paper presents findings from a wide range of literature on growth mindset in primary and secondary education. Part 1 describes key insights from research on growth mindset. Part 2 presents promising practices to improving students’ growth mindset beliefs…Making The Abstract Explicit: The Role Of Metacognition In Teaching And Learning
This policy paper presents findings from a wide range of literature on metacognition in primary and secondary education. To help make the abstract explicit for school leaders and teachers, we focus on three aspects of metacognition commonly studied in the…
Ownership of Learning: Fostering Learners with Autonomy, Drive, and Endurance
Ownership of learning means a learner is motivated, engaged, and self-directed with a sense of autonomy, choice, and responsibility in their actions. All learners have a fundamental need to feel autonomy in what they do. Decades of research has shown…
Annotated Keynote Presentation
Want to learn more about Inflexion, our approach, and the work we do? Download an annotated version of our 2020 keynote presentation to read examples of how we are working with educators, students, communities, and an impressive list of partners…
Two Anchors That Make or Break School Change Efforts
Too many school improvement initiatives dive immediately into reforms of learning approaches or processes. This is skipping steps. Defining your school’s Identity and a Vision for Student Readiness must come before big school change initiatives. These two anchors: Inflexion’s approach…Two Anchors for School Change Efforts: Identity and Vision for Readiness
We recently invited a videographer to follow Inflexion staff and interested educators as we toured a few schools with whom we’ve been working. This short video summarizes some of what he saw and heard during those visits.Fountain Valley High School Students Talk About Life Ready Maxims
We love how the students in this video from Fountain Valley High School are connecting their maxims to the daily life at their school and thinking about how what they are learning is preparing them for what’s next. This is…
4J North Eugene Visioning Report
North Eugene High School Principal, Iton Udosenata and 4J District Associate Director for Communications, Kerry Delf present their work with Inflexion around a visioning process and developing maxims to the school board.
Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement
This issue brief lists key components and best practices of family engagement and discuss how districts can build systems to support engagement. The authors describe family engagement practices and systems in six school districts throughout the United States.
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