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Professional Learning

Personalizing Adult Learning

By using four key culture shift levers, one Boston high school developed a system of effective personalized adult learning.
Technology Tools

Bridging the Wealth Gap with EdTech

The superintendent of Connellsville Area School District discusses the opportunity created by deploying embodied learning technologies to drive student outcomes.
New Designs for School

Building Empathy With Extreme Users in the Classroom With Design Thinking

A teacher's plan to glean strategies for success from students leads to a new way to co-create learning pathways with her students.
New Designs for School

Little Kids, Big Ideas: Inspiring Project-Based Learning

4 practices help teachers design meaningful project-based learning, revealing kids' hidden talents and genius, contributing to their community.
Technology Tools

A New World: VR and AR Tech Developments

Virtual reality and augmented reality technology has a long history. Recent progress in mobile technologies has opened the door to innovative headsets.
Designing for Equity

Reshaping Student Networks in K-20 Education

A student’s social and professional network is often left up to chance. But here's how educators are changing that.
Building Community

Scaling Personalized Learning at Distinctive Schools: Going Slow to Go Fast

Adopting personalized learning benefits from the lessons of early innovators, but investing the next group of educators in both planning and design is crucial.
Technology Tools

Beyond Test Scores, Measuring the Impact of SMALLab on Student Leadership

Bobtown Elementary School's SMALLab creates leadership opportunities for students that are often unseen at home or in the classroom.
New Designs for School

An Educator’s Guide to Learner Profiles for Students

As more educators work to replace factory-model schools with personalized, student-centered learning experiences, knowing students has taken on new meaning.
New Designs for School

Request for Proposals (RFP) Wave IV: Breakthrough School Models for College Readiness (now closed)

This RFP is closed.

EDUCAUSE, through Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), offered this Request for Proposals (RFP) for two types of grants—launch and planning grants—from developers of new or redesigned whole-school, breakthrough learning models at the secondary level (students within grades 6–12; see Table 1).

National Fund: Cycle 2 of $12 Million for New & Redesigned Schools Serving Students Within Grades 6–12
Application Deadlines: December 2, 2013 (Launch) and January 13, 2014 (Planning)

Identifies 7 design principles for breakthrough schools, the problem we are trying to solve, overview of grants available and application process, and instructions to apply.