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New Designs for School

​It Takes a Village: Talent Cities at Vista Unified

​Dropping out is not a high school problem; it’s a middle school problem. How do we hook students early and show that what they are learning is relevant?
New Designs for School

A Year in the Making: Lessons My New Year's Resolution Taught Me about Next Gen Learning

I wonder how and when was I encouraged to take risks at school and to learn by failing?
Why Schools Need to Change

Preparing for the Future of Work with Career Technical Education

We cannot look at education in terms of separate categories. All students need high level learning connected to their careers.
Enabling Change

A New Education Research-Practice Center: Early. Personal. Relevant.

The International Center for Educational Research and Practice is a center of neuroscience study, addressing learner needs from birth to college and career.
Professional Learning

Students Design, Tinker, Create and Discover through Maker-based Learning

At the core of the maker movement and its signature festival events is a desire to design, tinker, create, and discover.
Technology Tools

VR and AR: Transforming Learning and Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences

How do we interpret literature, art, history & archaeology when we are not passive recipients but co-constructors and actors in immersive experiences? ​​
New Designs for School

NGLC in Oakland Planning Grantees

Ten district & charter schools designing personalized learning school models

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New Designs for School

Urban Promise Academy

Oakland Unified School District

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Enabling Change

The School Principal as Change Agent

Principals must become change agents in order for education in a school district to transition from assembly line efficiency to learner-centered agency.
New Designs for School

Speak, John, Speak: Feeling the Power of Exhibitions at the Workshop School

​The students at the Workshop School, a non-selective high school in the School District of Philadelphia, present their work at the end of each quarter. ​