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New Designs for School

Startup Weekend EDU D.C.: Next Gen Schools

At Startup Weekend EDU D.C., innovators are pitching ideas for next generation schools and drawing inspiration from pop-up diners and food trucks.
New Designs for School

Want Real Ed Reform? 5 Ways Students Should Be Included

If we are serious about providing each & every student a truly transformational 21st century education, we need to ask our students what they think should be done.
Building Community

Coming Together to Envision the Future of Learning

It’s time to move past the existing metaphor—the factory—for learning in schools. Here, next gen educators begin to tell the #NextEdStory.
Enabling Change

The Foundations of Next Generation Learning - Essential Resources

NGLC’s Sarah Luchs describes the field base and results of the school models in the NGLC network, particularly the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools.
New Designs for School

What Does Deeper Learning Sound Like?

As Assessment for Learning Project educators rethink assessment, they are bumping up against some deeply ingrained assumptions about what learning really is.
Technology Tools

Increasing Teacher Engagement: Digital Resources for Algebraic Reasoning (Part 1)

Deborah Ives describes how Get the Math relates algebraic reasoning to the real world and how teachers can integrate the digital resource into their curriculum.
New Designs for School

NGLC’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me"

Real stories of launching and running personalized learning schools
Designing for Equity

Teachable Times: Equity in Next Generation Learning

Is equity our collective purpose, the “why” we all share? Find inspiration on the role of student agency, social-emotional learning & teaching for equity.
Building Community

Inspiration and the Right People @ iNACOL 2015

"Transforming education cannot be done to people, or for people, but must be done by people." -Gisele Huff
New Designs for School

A Shift in Literacy Instruction in a Primary Classroom

We can learn a lot from kids when they’ve been allowed to truly use their voice and treated as an active player in the game of learning.