The Nellie Mae Education Foundation created this Student-Centered Learning Continuum (SCL Continuum) to establish the characteristics of high-quality, student-centered learning in classrooms, schools, and districts. This continuum is based upon existing research and cutting-edge practice, incorporates the experiences of experts and practitioners, and acknowledges the contexts in which classrooms, schools, and districts operate. Student-centered learning is still relatively new. It is a concept that blurs and questions the boundaries of traditional education systems and organizations. Therefore, an explicit set of principles supported by a set of clear and measurable criteria is a key underpinning to large-scale implementation. This continuum is intended to provide a rich description of practices associated with SCL. It can be a formative tool through which a learning community examines its desired progress toward becoming a truly student-centered learning setting. Each tenet of SCL is composed of numerous strategies, indicated by each row of the SCL continuum; the columns of the continuum represent the extent to which SCL is present in a learning environment. The furthest left column represents a learning environment with limited SCL present, while each successive column to the right represents a progression toward high-quality SCL implementation. It is hoped that this document can be used in tandem with the "Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Teaching" (see ED560785 for the 2015 edition) and "Leadership Competencies for Learner-Centered, Personalized Education" (see ED608797).