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Professional Learning

Thrive's Next Gen Learning Symposium

120 educators from the greater San Diego area explored how next gen teaching practices make learning deeper and more meaningful in this kickoff to Thrive's Innovative Educator certificate program.
New Designs for School

Using Space to Realize a Next Gen Learning Vision

Space in next gen schools is designed and used differently to bring a sense of joy, motivation, overall well-being, personalization, and, improve learning.
New Designs for School

What's All the Buzz About Detroit?

Education in Detroit is coming out of the tailspin. There are some very good schools serving high need populations and it rivals the Bay Area for innovations in blended learning.​
New Designs for School

School’s Out for the Summer! Revisiting the Hypotheses Behind Next Gen Learning

As we wrap up this academic year, it’s a good time to reflect on the hypotheses behind next gen learning, so I asked several of our leading school innovators to answer two questions. Their answers might surprise you.
Enabling Change

iCERP: Building a Research/Practice Partnership

The focus of iCERP is to close the achievement and skills gap for all students through the intersectionality of thought between teachers, researchers & business leaders.
Building Community

Multiple Pathways to Success: NYC’s Transfer School Institute

A truly effective network has the power to transform the outcomes for the most marginalized students: the story of NYC’s Transfer School Institute
Professional Learning

Innovating With Your Greatest Asset, Caring Adults

Guides at Epic Middle School and Pride Leaders at Valor Collegiate Academy: two new adult roles created to promote student learning, success, and well-being.
Designing for Equity

Beyond Academic Personalized Learning: Implementing Restorative Justice

Distinctive Schools' CICS Bucktown infused the philosophy of personalized learning into the school's discipline practices through restorative justice.
New Designs for School

Successfully Ever After: Building 21’s Broader Competencies

Many NGLC schools are considering the full scope of their students’ futures—lifelong learning, multiple careers, relationships, and civic engagement.
Designing for Equity

The Nature Gap and School Redesign at Boston Public Schools

​Intrepid Academy at Hale ​aims to change the ‘nature gap’ that today's urban and low-income students experience​, and it's showing promise.