Open-Source Ideas, Tools, and Strategies from Next Gen Learning Innovators

We interviewed 5 school district sites on their approach to Portrait of a Graduate and weaved their stories into a multimedia tapestry for a better understanding.

Let's move from seeing AI as a cheating threat to harnessing it to transform learning in ways that drive engagement, redefine student success, and change school as we know it.

What can we learn from public schools and districts whose learning models and cultures made them genuinely prepared for the challenges of COVID? The answer should shape public education for decades to come.

Discover not just what next gen learning looks like at innovative schools, but how innovation happens. Hear directly from host site students, teachers, and administrators and get support to take your learning home.

Student stories can validate quantitative metrics of personalized learning, demonstrating that they reflect important changes in students' learning that build a more complete evidence base.

Transformation Design is an approach to educational systems change that is more inclusive, iterative, and imaginative than what is often used in K-12 education. It takes the principles behind next gen learning and reflects those principles in the process required to get there. Find out what it takes for this kind of learning redesign to succeed.

We collected tools that next generation educators have used to develop an equity lens in professional learning, organizational growth, school culture, and next gen learning design. Use them to create a new narrative in your schools, to actively and thoughtfully design for equity.

Mass IDEAS: Innovating Design in Education for All Students is helping communities across Massachusetts create the great public schools our students deserve.

Through a growing community of practice and a grant program funding bold ideas, NGLC joins a national group of partners inviting the field to fundamentally #rethinkassessment.

Use the research, tools, and community you’ll find with MyWays to launch your school-change initiative and reimagine your learning and assessment designs. MyWays can catalyze rich discussions, collaborative development, and transformative culture-building within your team, school, district, and community. #MyWays

Networks are playing an increasing role in shifting to new learning designs in K-12 education. Networks for Learning brings together many voices to generate a new, collective understanding about creating the healthy, equitable connections that help these networks thrive. #Networks4Learning

Next generation educators lend their voices to the question: How should schools go about measuring the success of an educational innovation? These educators are developing new approaches to measure and understand broader and deeper student learning and growth.