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New Designs for School

Competency-Based Approaches in K-12 Schools, Part Two

NGLC grantee USC Hybrid High has committed its competency-based education model to a larger goal: positive multigenerational change.
New Designs for School

Competency-Based Education Approaches in K-12 Schools, Part One

A round up of tools and resources focused on competency-based education to help practitioners personalize learning for students, featuring Philadelphia School District's Building 21.
Enabling Change

Competency-Based Education Gains Momentum

CBE is serving students of all ages, grades and skill levels; this post explores existing collaborations or points of intersection between schools and academia.
New Designs for School

Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Schools

Find out how NGLC breakthrough schools adopt the design principle of Self-Pacing and Mastery-Based Credit so students move at their own optimal pace and receive credit when they demonstrate mastery.
Professional Learning

Design Thinking in Education: Practical Tools to Share!

An open-licensed Design Workbook supports professional learning that helps teachers use the design thinking process in their everyday work.
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Models for College Readiness: An Introduction to Next Generation Blended Schools

This compilation of Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grantee profiles illustrates the innovative approaches of 41 personalized, blended, competency-based learning school models. The K-12 models were awarded grants under NGLC's third and fourth waves of funding, which focused on "Breakthrough School Models for College Readiness." This publication provides practical details particularly of interest to those designing and planning innovative secondary schools. The introduction describes common attributes across the portfolio, including personalized learning, student-directed approaches, hands-on experiences, flexible learning spaces, and interactive and adaptive learning management systems. Following the brief overview, each individual model is profiled. The individual profiles summarize key features through graphics and at-a-glance facts. They also offer important descriptive information about the instructional and financial models and their unique methods and structures to rethink “school” in affordable, sustainable, and scalable ways, so that they work in particular for underserved populations.
New Designs for School

Design Thinking Infiltrates K-12 Education

An emerging K-12 pedagogy, design thinking means coming up with practical, creative solutions to current problems, with the intent of an improved future result.
Reimagining Assessment

Designing a Better Learning Environment

A project of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) has been developed by leading community experts for rating formal learning spaces to determine how well classroom design supports and encourages active learning.
New Designs for School

Next Gen Tools: Personalized Learning Plans and Learner Profiles

Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) and Learner Profiles help a student to identify academic and social-emotional needs, goals, and pace; keep track of them; and teachers use them to truly personalize learning. This brief details how three schools in the Next Generation Learning Challenges network are using these tools to advance student learning and success.
Technology Tools

Next Gen Tools: Activate Instruction

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on Summit Public Schools' co-development of Activate Instruction--a free, open, online site for curricula that integrates assessments, in conjunction with Illuminate Education and ShowEvidence, to allow students to progress at their own pace in one, integrated space.