May 18, 2020
Mass IDEAS Awards First Implementation Grants to Teams from Across Massachusetts. Mass IDEAS is excited to announce our first cohort of implementation grantees! These teams were awarded up to $375,000 along with professional learning and coaching for whole-school redesigns that they developed as part of Mass IDEAS’ first planning grant cohort: Barnstable Intermediate School in Hyannis, Mohawk Trail Regional School in Shelburne Falls, and Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington.
February 5, 2020
Mass IDEAS awards grants from November School Design Institute. Mass IDEAS continues to support teams across the Commonwealth who are rethinking their schools: Jabish Brook Middle School in Belchertown and Westport Junior Senior High School in Westport!
January 9, 2020
School principal credits NGLC and Mass IDEAS for redesign inspiration, support. In The Berkshire Edge, Monument Mountain Regional High School principal Kristi Farina recognized the support for school redesign the school received from a Mass IDEAS planning grant.
January 7, 2019
Mass IDEAS Awards Planning Grants to Five Teams across Massachusetts. Mass IDEAS selects our first cohort of planning grantees, each receiving up to $150,000 combined with direct supports! Congratulations to Barnstable Intermediate School (Hyannis), Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School (Hathorne), Mohawk Trail Regional School (Shelburne Falls), Monument Mountain Regional High School (Great Barrington), and Salem High School (Salem).
November 5, 2018
Mass IDEAS awards grants from October School Design Institute. Mass IDEAS funded two more teams to continue their work following one of our School Design Institutes: Dearborn STEM Academy and Mohawk Trail Regional School.
Mass IDEAS hosts its first School Model Design Studio. Teams spent three days this summer developing new school models and whole school redesigns!
Mass IDEAS hosts its final School Design Institute of 2018! Six teams spent an October weekend designing potential solutions to improve their Massachusetts schools.
May 2, 2018
Mass IDEAS presents grants to 3 additional school design teams. Congratulations to the next Mass IDEAS grant recipients who will test the prototypes they developed at the Mass IDEAS School Design Institute to rethink education: Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research, Resiliency Preparatory Academy, and R.C. Mahar Regional School!
April 16, 2018
First Mass IDEAS grants awarded to 3 school design teams. Congratulations to the first-ever Mass IDEAS grant recipients: TechBoston Academy of Boston Public Schools, Wildflower Schools, and New Bedford Cheironeum! These teams will test the prototypes they developed at Mass IDEAS' School Design Institute.
March 28, 2018
NGLC receives $4.2 million from Barr Foundation to support Mass. educators, teams. Mass IDEAS - Innovating Design in Education for All Students is a new initiative from NGLC to ignite bold, innovative school models in Massachusetts, launched with $3.5 million generously awarded by the Barr Foundation.
February 9, 2018
First School Design Institute Starts Saturday! Teams across Massachusetts applied for Mass IDEAS’ first School Design Institute and eight teams were selected. They will be developing strategies to make schools better for students.
Photo at top courtesy of NGLC.