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Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants

As the school year ramps up, it's easy for anyone to get caught up in an adversarial approach to technology and learning; digital immigrants versus digital natives. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Technology Tools

Next Gen Tools: Matchbook Learning's "Spark"

Spark is a data integration tool created to support Matchbook Learning's student-centered, mastery-based, blended learning model. It analyzes student achievement daily based on multiple points of data from various online resources and assessment providers. It provides teachers with a one-stop view of a student's proficiency to help teachers strategically group students for future learning opportunities.
Technology Tools

Next Gen Tools: EAA's "Buzz"

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on Buzz, a K-12 personalized learning platform used in Education Achievement Authority of Michigan's schools. Buzz was developed in partnership between EAA, Agilix, and School Improvement Network. Buzz facilitates the delivery of core content and assessments to students, allows students to advance at an individualized pace, and provides data to inform teachers' instructional strategies. The brief includes an artifact of screenshots and a student tour of the platform.
Professional Learning

Next Gen Tools: Hiring for Mindset

Because teachers are the most important school-based factor for student success, hiring matters. Hiring for mindset involves a performance-based experience, where current students and teachers have a strong voice in the selection process, and a candidate’s fit with school culture has at least equal weight with performance and content knowledge.
New Designs for School

Next Gen Tools: Blended Learning Classroom Design

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the classroom design of Merit Prep--a large open space with smaller adjoining breakout rooms to accommodate up to 115 students and three teachers working as a team in a personalized, blended learning environment.
New Designs for School

Diving into Project-Based Learning

Ways to apply project-based learning in your classroom to help make learning deeper, more authentic, relevant, and personal.
Professional Learning

Next Gen Tools: Pre-Service Teacher Learning Collaborative

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the pre-service teacher learning collaborative between Jacksonville State University and Piedmont City Schools through the Collaborative Regional Education (CORE) professional development initiative. Student teachers from Jacksonville State serve as co-teachers, are trained in collaborative pedagogy, and gain experience teaching in a personalized, blended, mastery-based learning environment at Piedmont Middle School.
Professional Learning

Next Gen Tools: EAA Professional Development

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the blended, mastery-based professional development course developed by the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan for teachers in its student-centered learning schools. The goal is to provide the professional development that teachers need to leverage the student-centered learning environment in EAA schools in order to prepare K-12 students for college and career. An artifact includes screenshots of the teacher dashboard and professional development playlist that guides the professional learning experience in the Buzz learning platform.
New Designs for School

Next Gen Tools: e3 Civic High School Facility

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the facility infrastructure of e3 Civic High School--a flexible, open, 21st century space that supports the school's personalized and project-based curriculum.
New Designs for School

A GPS for Breakthrough Model Design: Mapping Your Next Gen School with Intrinsic Schools and Piedmont School District as Guides

This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and 2Revolutions is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use as a guide for decision-making in the design and launch of a next generation learning school. By tracing the journeys of two NGLC breakthrough model schools—Piedmont School District and Intrinsic Schools—this toolkit helps educators brainstorm, rally a diverse team of people, create a vision for school design, and explore the details behind specific components of a school’s model.