Student-Centered Learning: Support for Educators

Type: Guidance/Sample/Template
Topics: Curriculum & Assessment, Portrait of a Graduate, Student-Centered Learning

February 05, 2026

Parallel Supports for Adults

When educators experience autonomy, trust, and purpose in their own professional learning, they are far better positioned to design learning environments that center students.

District leaders consistently emphasize that student-centered learning is not sustainable through classroom-level effort alone. It requires parallel systems for adults—systems that provide clarity, coherence, agency, belonging, and practical support.

The following are resources from school districts to help support educators in this work:

Parallel Supports Companion Guide
  Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµMember-Only Companion Guide: Student-Centered Learning Requires Parallel Supports for Adults

This companion guide is a facilitation tool for district leadership teams to support the use of two district-developed resources—the Isle of Wight County Schools Deeper Learning One-Pager and the Loudoun County Public Schools Instructional Framework—as exemplars for building the adult conditions required to sustain student-centered learning within the framework of Public Education Promise Principle 1: Prioritize Student-Centered Learning.

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