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New Designs for School

Create a Learning Recovery Plan for Your Returning Students

Unfinished learning resulting from the pandemic exacerbated the decades-old challenge of summer learning loss. A plan for learning recovery should include these 6 components.
Enabling Change

This Epiphany Changed These Schools and Districts and the Lives of the Families They Serve. It Could Do the Same for You.

Is your school living your graduate profile among students and adults? The stories of these schools’ response to COVID vividly demonstrate why you should.
Enabling Change

Clear Values, Compassionate Leadership, and a Can-Do Attitude

​These districts faced the complex challenges of the pandemic with a human-centered approach that allowed their response to be nimble and agile.
Enabling Change

Three Schools that Found the COVID-19 Pandemic to Be “Business as Usual”

During the pandemic, 3 learner-centered schools doubled down on relationships and the conditions each child needed to thrive.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Full Spectrum Narrative of a School for English Language Learners

Student-centered evidence helps International High School at Langley Park better serve English language learners and disrupts the narrative about ELLs.
Designing for Equity

5 Lessons (and Counting) from Our Effort to Remake NGLC as an Anti-Racist Organization with Diverse Co-Directors

Our journey isn't done & may never be. But in launching the transformation of NGLC to integrate next gen learning with social justice, we are learning a lot that may help others traveling a similar path.
Enabling Change

Emancipatory Organizational Design: An Alternative to School and District Bureaucracy

Discover the 8 characteristics of an "emancipatory organizational design" for school districts, and move to school systems that create coherence, equity, and powerful learning for students and adults.
Enabling Change

What the Research Reveals

Explore NGLC's Prepared Project findings on school COVID response plans & key takeaways. Our research explores the pandemic's impact on schools into the future.
Enabling Change

Use This Research to Change the Narrative in Your School, District, and Community

Advance your own transformation journey with these activities that are based on the efforts of the Prepared project's participating schools and districts.
Enabling Change

Learn More with These Additional Resources

Use this collection of selected resources for helpful statistics, stories, and research about what schools and districts experienced during the pandemic and what's next for K-12 education.