At Next Generation Learning Challenges, we encourage collaboration across institutions, innovators, and all who serve the education community. We invite you to browse postings from other organizations who may share your interests, or to submit your own post in order to locate a potential collaborator for your grant application or current project. Once you have identified a potential collaborator, please contact them directly to explore areas of shared interest.
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Post-Secondary Education:
Secondary Education:
Innovator seeking Innovator
Name of organization: Positive Entertainment And Creative Education
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Abran Maldonado
Contact Email: Abran@peaceforyouth.com
Organization Website: www.peaceforyouth.com
Describe your organization: Positive Entertainment And Creative Education is dedicated to addressing the needs of underserved youth through a hybrid approach fusing both entertainment and education. We offer a variety of services ranging from teacher professional development, student enrichment to educational research. The PEACE team, which consists of educators, researchers and artists, specialize in the use of popular youth culture such as Hip-Hop, dance and digital media production to enhance the learning experience for disengaged youth. The PEACE mission aims to: Develop authentic and meaningful curriculum that uses the arts and youth culture to improve literacy, engagement and motivation for struggling youthEquip educators with effective strategies to create more engaging and culturally responsive instruction for their studentsEmpower students and give them opportunities to create, share ideas and discover new talents through student-centered project based learning
Describe your project: PEACE is currently looking to collaborate with innovative school models to offer student-centered enrichment programming centered around the arts, STEM and digital media and to train their staff on the latest research on 21st century teaching and learning with a special focus on disengaged, unmotivated and underserved youth. Please contact us at your earliest convenience, we look forward to becoming a supportive partner to your school.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: NY
Date of Posting: 01/18/12 01:40pm
Name of organization: Write2Win
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Linda Wolf
Contact Email: linda@write2winonline.org
Organization Website: www.write2winonline.org
Describe your organization: Write2Win, a nonprofit organization of professional writers, editors, and educators, works with 6th-12th graders to improve their classroom writing assignments via the Internet. Students receive personalized one-on-one coaching and guidance from a professional. The program helps prepare students for high school graduation and college success by raising grades and building academic confidence.
Describe your project: We need to collaborate with a technology group to create a robust online environment for this wonderful program. We have writing tools, games, and projects in development to add to our core service of giving unique attention to each student’s work. Students respond enthusiastically to personal guidance from the professional community. Teachers report a significant increase in their time to individually conference with students, adding needed depth to an effective writing program.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: IL
Date of Posting: 12/27/11 06:33pm
Innovator seeking School
Name of organization: Imagine Education
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Martha Riecks
Contact Email: martha@imagineeducation.org
Organization Website: www.imagineeducation.org
Describe your organization: Imagine Education (IE) is founded on the idea that through story, one of the of the oldest, most powerful architectures of human learning, educational games have the power to transform student attitudes, improve test scores and establish a foundation for future learning. Created in partnership by a former middle school teacher and a CPA, IE aims to fundamentally alter the math experience for thousands of middle school students through story-rich, video game-based curricula.
Describe your project: IE has received support through the NGLC Wave II to enhance and improve Ko’s Journey, its premiere product. As we develop new games, and continue making enhancements to our existing product, we have a strong interest in establishing partnerships with public, charter and virtual schools to develop, test, pilot and evaluate our games, and take part in research studies.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Districts/Charters
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: NM
Date of Posting: 12/15/11 01:14pm
Name of organization: Open Education Solutions
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Tom Vander Ark
Contact Email: tvanderark@openedsolutions.com
Organization Website: www.OpenEdSolutions.com
Describe your organization: OpenEd is a blended learning service provider. EduInnovation is a nonprofit focused on digital learning.
Describe your project: Want to develop/pilot 6-12 Common Core badge system to motivate/recognize/manage student progress. Have identified portion of development budget.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Districts/Charters
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: WA
Date of Posting: 02/10/12 02:48pm
Name of organization: Virtual High School - govhs.org
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Liz Pape
Contact Email: lpape@goVHS.org
Organization Website: govhs.org
Describe your organization: Virtual High School (VHS,) a leader in online education and professional development, has proven in its fourteen-year history that our collaborative is committed to quality course design, online education standards and pedagogy, student assessment, teacher professional development, and teacher certification. VHS and our member schools work together to build valuable solutions, including: professional development training, challenging, student centered courses and engaging enrichment programs that address critical educational needs. VHS offers a catalog of over full semester courses in the Arts, Foreign Language, Language Arts, Life Skills, Math, Science, Social Studies, Technology and AP.
Describe your project: Partner with a school operator to launch a new blended STEM Career school(s) that will leverage the extensive VHS catalog of engaging STEM courses as well as our digital learning assets and expertise. We also seek to partner with leading STEM advocacy and industry organizations to develop personalized career road maps and mentoring for all students.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Districts/Charters
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: MA
Date of Posting: 01/06/12 02:56pm
Name of organization: Global Citizenship Experience
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Eric Davis
Contact Email: eric@gcechicago.com
Organization Website: www.gcechicago.com
Describe your organization: Global Citizenship Experience has developed a rigorous educational platform for aspiring global innovators. Students explore their sense of purpose and social responsibility in a creative and engaging, college-preparatory environment. Our mission is to cultivate a laboratory for learning that produces innovative, scalable and sustainable models for 21st century global education. Our vision is to design, test, and share successful programs through community and corporate partnerships, educator training workshops, and curriculum distribution.
Describe your project: GCE curriculum matters to our students and to the world. We seek district and charter school partners in need of our expertise to train their staff. We train educators to guide students through courses that teach critical literacy, digital literacy, executive functioning, and global citizenship skills. The curriculum is designed to be: global (relevant locally and globally), integrated (subjects woven together), purpose driven (makes people and the world better), inquiry and project-based (we ask questions and experiment with solutions), to guide students toward mastery (demonstrable outcomes that reflect skills learned), incorporate multiple forms of assessment (videos, ppts, essays, blogs, presentations…), differentiate for individual learning styles and interests (how YOU learn and what you connect to), and it is delivered through blended learning (in-person and on-line to prepare students for 21st century ingenuity and interactions).
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Districts/Charters
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: IL
Date of Posting: 01/10/12 01:49pm
School seeking Innovator
Name of organization: Gull Lake School District
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Districts/Charters
Contact Name: Doug Woodard, Ph.D.
Contact Email: dougwoodard4@gmail.com
Organization Website: http://www.gulllakeschools.net/
Describe your organization: We represent the Gull Lake Home School Partnership that is part of the Gull Lake Public School District.
Describe your project: I would love to discuss options/possibilities with anyone interested in creating an online and/or video game that encourages high school students to compete a project-based innovation course. We are currently offering a classroom based version of that course and would like to expand that course to an online version. One of our big ideas is to host a competition by which young video game developers and entrp. students work together with the goal of developing the best (defined as fun, project-based and that teaches the innovation process) game for cash awards and scholarships.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: school
Your Geographic Location: MI
Date of Posting: 12/18/11 11:11am
Name of organization: Collins-Maxwell CSD
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Districts/Charters
Contact Name: Jason Ellingson
Contact Email: jellingson@collins-maxwell.k12.ia.us
Organization Website: www.collins-maxwell.k12.ia.us
Describe your organization: We are a rural district of 500 students, only 30 minutes from Iowa State University in Ames and the state government in Des Moines.
Describe your project: We would like to develop a web-based learning progression mapping database that allows teachers to enter feedback as students work toward completing the Common Core.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: school
Your Geographic Location: IA
Date of Posting: 01/18/12 02:26pm
Name of organization: Minneapolis Public Schools
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Districts/Charters
Contact Name: Kelsey Heenan
Contact Email: kelsey.heenan@mpls.k12.mn.us
Organization Website: http://newschools.mpls.k12.mn.us/
Describe your organization: Minneapolis Public Schools is a district that is seeking to close the achievement gap with an extremely unique innovative approach.
Describe your project: The Office of New Schools and Office of Secondary Transformation in Minneapolis Public Schools requests proposals for an innovative, blended-learning school model. MPS is seeking to partner with a team that is willing to think outside of the box using instructional technology as a gateway to student success.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: school
Your Geographic Location: MN
Date of Posting: 03/07/12 01:56pm
Name of organization: Northwest Local School District
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Districts/Charters
Contact Name: Fran Morrison
Contact Email: fmorrison@nwlsd.org
Organization Website: www.nwlsd.org
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Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: school
Your Geographic Location: OH
Date of Posting: 02/06/12 12:59pm
School seeking School
Name of organization: Medical Academy Charter School
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Districts/Charters
Contact Name: Nicole Lane
Contact Email: mediclacad@ymail.com
Organization Website: www.medicalacad.com
Describe your organization: We are a charter school for students who are interested in a medical career. We will open next year for ninth and tenth grade students.
Describe your project: In ninth and tenth grade the students will be taught the foundation for a medical career including but not limited to: medical terminology, personal health and wellness, computer applications for the health care industry, and the first of three career counseling opportunities. In 2013 we will add an eleventh grade. In eleventh grade the students will focus on teamwork and communication skills for the healthcare industry and medical abbreviations and coding. They will have their second career counseling even which will be a job shadowing opportunity. Finally, in 2014 we will add a twelfth grade. In twelfth grade the students will chose their career. We will have two tracks, a technical and a college bound track. The technical track students will learn a career and become certified in that career through our facility and partnering sites. Those students will graduate high school and go directly into the workforce. The college bound students will have an opportunity to earn college credits; as well as take general medicine, an introduction to the MCAT, and an introduction to internship. The introduction for internship course will allow our students to go into the field and do a mini internship with hands on activities to prepare them for medical school. This will be in addition to their High School education and diploma.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Districts/Charters
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: school
Your Geographic Location: PA
Date of Posting: 02/06/12 07:20am
School seeking University
Name of organization: Igeneration
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Districts/Charters
Contact Name: Dr. Jeff Baker
Contact Email: bakerconsulting@live.com
Organization Website: www.interVisualTechnology.com
Describe your organization: IVT develops a blended education programs for students in grades 6-12, using innovative technology that personalizes student learning and the teacher role to new heights. Our blended education model is a hybrid of online and traditional delivery education.
Describe your project: to provide hybrid campuses of learning for "at-risk" youth in underserved communities nationally.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Colleges/Universities
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: school
Your Geographic Location: FL
Date of Posting: 01/18/12 11:08am
University seeking Innovator
Name of organization: Inter American University of Puerto Rico
Field: secondary
Type of organization: Colleges/Universities
Contact Name: Eunice Cordero
Contact Email: ecordero@ponce.inter.edu
Organization Website: http://www.ponce.inter.edu
Describe your organization: La Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de POnce está buscando colaboradores, ya que deseamos establecer una escuela virtual.
Describe your project: Establecer escuela virtual de K-12.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: university
Your Geographic Location: AL
Date of Posting: 12/13/11 02:55pm
Post-Secondary Education:
Innovator seeking Innovator
Name of organization: Adapt Courseware
Field: post_secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Hank Bowman
Contact Email: hank@adaptcourseware.com
Organization Website: www.adaptcourseware.com
Describe your organization: Adapt Courseware, a well-funded startup, develops next generation, adaptive curriculum for colleges and universities. By bringing together known learning science, advanced multimedia design and rich social media tools, we believe we can help instructors engage with students better and produce improvements in mastery learning, course completion and student retention and re-enrollment.
Describe your project: We are seeking a limited number of research partners who will review our general education content areas, deliver it to students over the summer session of 2012, and help analyze the outcomes for joint research. There is no financial investment required but some college or department resources will be needed.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: NY
Date of Posting: 01/24/12 12:33pm
Name of organization: Omnicademy, LLC
Field: post_secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Stacey Simmons, PhD
Contact Email: stacey@omnicademy.com
Organization Website: www.omnicademy.com
Describe your organization: Omnicademy.com is an online learning platform that allows any college or university to offer online courses and share those courses across institutional lines if they choose. Built into the platform are online video recording, webex capability for course or 1:1 meetings, social networking, and many other online learning tools.
Describe your project: Omnicademy is looking for partner institutions who wish to expand their current offerings or enhance their online courses. We are especially interested in helping institutions collaborate whether this is Community Colleges with 4 year institutions, Consortia, or programs where there is a demand for creating options across university or college systems.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Innovators
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: LA
Date of Posting: 01/05/12 12:57pm
Innovator seeking University
Name of organization: Adapt Courseware
Field: post_secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Hank Bowman
Contact Email: hank@adaptcourseware.com
Organization Website: www.adaptcourseware.com
Describe your organization: Adapt Courseware, a well-funded startup, develops next generation, adaptive curriculum for colleges and universities. By bringing together known learning science, advanced multimedia design and rich social media tools, we believe we can help instructors engage with students better and produce improvements in mastery learning, course completion and student retention and re-enrollment.
Describe your project: We are seeking a limited number of community college and/or 4yr university research partners who are actively exploring newly emerging adaptive and personalized learning technology. Objectives: 1) partners will review our general education content areas 2) provide peer review feedback 3) deliver our released courses to students over the summer session of 2012 4) help analyze the outcomes for joint research. There is no financial investment required however some college or department resources will be needed.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Colleges/Universities
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: NY
Date of Posting: 01/24/12 12:52pm
Name of organization: CoreDogs
Field: post_secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: Kieran Mathieson
Contact Email: kieran@coredogs.com
Organization Website: http://coredogs.com
Describe your organization: The CoreDogs Way is an approach to designing skills courses, like algebra, writing, and Web design. The Way is grounded in learning science. We build tools to help authors create online textbooks for skills courses, and help educators teach skill courses using those books.
Describe your project: We'd like to partner with educator/authors to create online textbooks (or shorter course modules) for flipped courses. Our approach works best with skill courses. See http://coredogs.com/article/tale-two-students for a short story explaining our approach.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Colleges/Universities
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: MI
Date of Posting: 12/24/11 01:29pm
Name of organization: Lancaster Interactive
Field: post_secondary
Type of organization: Innovators
Contact Name: John Slevin
Contact Email: john@lancasterinteractive.com
Organization Website: lancasterinteractive.com
Describe your organization: Lancaster Interactive has been supporting organizations communications and transitional needs since 2001. Our evidence-based strategy and program has helped others through similar transition periods. The existing tool facilitated ongoing communication, improved upon the level of engagement and supported users in becoming more productive and effective as they entered into a new role and/or relationship.
Describe your project: A web-based application that colleges an universities can use as part of their overall “communication strategy”. Just-in-time delivery of messages and resources will contribute to the awareness of the change FY and Transfer students are experiencing. Studies have shown that a good transition model creates engaged students, which means better retention or colleges and universities.
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Colleges/Universities
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: innovator
Your Geographic Location: IL
Date of Posting: 02/24/12 02:55pm
University seeking University
Name of organization: Indonesia University of Education (UPI: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)
Field: post_secondary
Type of organization: Colleges/Universities
Contact Name: enjang a. juanda
Contact Email: enjang55@yahoo.com
Organization Website: www.upi.edu/ http://elektro.fptk.upi.edu
Describe your organization: My institution is a leading educational university. As a wider mandate of our government we open various of non educational discipline too, for example English, Electrical Technology, Bussines, etc. We have Graduate School, Master and Doctorate level Study. Our Institution has been have many collaboration with worldwide universities.
Describe your project: We want doing research and experiment about advanced learning via next generation learning modes. The last project is "Virtual Class" via Moodle about the Mathematics supporting Digital Signal Processing
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Colleges/Universities
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: university
Your Geographic Location: AL
Date of Posting: 01/17/12 05:51pm
Name of organization: ARKANSAS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION OPTICAL NETWORK
Field: post_secondary
Type of organization: Colleges/Universities
Contact Name: MIKE ABBIATTI
Contact Email: mike.abbiatti@areon.net
Organization Website: www.areon.net
Describe your organization: ARE-ON is the Research and Education(R&E) network serving all public community colleges and four year institutions in Arkansas with high speed connectivity as well as serving as a leader in promoting teaching/learning applications across the K-20 continuum.
Describe your project: "Leveraging the Silent Stimulus" is a project designed to scale the significant research cyberinfrastructure(CI) across the K-20 curriculum, including all content areas. The most important aspect of advanced technology(CI) is what you DO with the technology(CI).
Type of Collaboration You are Seeking: Colleges/Universities
Type of Partner Organization You are Seeking: university
Your Geographic Location: AR
Date of Posting: 02/20/12 12:34pm