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Building Community

Timeline for NGLC in Oakland Initiative

Roger's Family Foundation Oakland timeline from the discovery phase through all funds being expended
Designing for Equity

Oakland Personalized Learning Case Study

Improving educational performance of of low-income communities- case studies from leading cities
New Designs for School

Personalized Learning School Design Attributes

A snapshot of personalized learning design attributes, with the goal being college readiness for all students. The model is designed to be replicable and optimized for scale.
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

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.
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.