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I Am a District Leader and I Need a Coach. So Do You.

Being surrounded by people who will push you is critical to a successful business' growth. So why, in education, is there still a stigma to coaching?
Technology Tools

7 Ways to Use Tech to Improve College Student Success

The reality we face in higher education today invites different approaches to promote student success. In this infographic, find out seven ways you can improve the odds using tech.
Why Schools Need to Change

What Learners Need to Thrive in a World of Change—MyWays

21st-century competencies require a thorough reimagining of the goals and processes that define our public schools. NGLC’s MyWays Project is here to help.
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Academic and Business Models for K-12 Schools: Resources for Wave IV Applicants

Examples of and theoretical and evidence-based perspectives on academic and business modeling for "breakthrough" secondary schools.​
Technology Tools

A Breakthrough Game Design for Student Success

Collaborative activities contribute to the social glue that helps students persist through a degree program. One Breakthrough Models Academy team asked: how can an interactive game tie in with helping Hispanic students to get the most out of college, and finish successfully with a degree?
Enabling Change

Collaborative Course Design with OER in the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative

Three aspects of collaborative course design made a difference in the success of the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative, now Lumen Learning,
Building Community

Creating Breakthrough Schools, One Region at a Time

NGLC has a call out for regionally-based partner organizations to become local incubators of next generation learning. The goal is a critical mass of new or redesigned schools that meet the needs of individual students and result in dramatic improvements in student outcomes.
New Designs for School

Competency-Based Education: Faculty Goals and Student Grades

Two insights from the ELI Annual Meeting are helping me think about how to proceed at Western Kentucky University: faculty goals and student grades.​
Designing for Equity

Curriculum, Defaults, and Equity

​Schools across the country have an equity problem: vastly different engagement from students in tasks with varying degrees of challenge in nearly every U.S. town.
Technology Tools

The Conversion of a Skeptic: My Journey into Online Teaching, Part 1

Student demand for online learning led to some transformational changes by a faculty member and self-professed skeptic of asynchronous teaching.