Next gen educators refuse to ignore that K-12 education in the U.S. is inequitable. The challenge of Designing for Equity is keeping it central to each design choice and next gen learning practice.
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The student experience is at the heart of next generation learning.
Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) supports the educators who are reimagining public education. NGLC helps them apply what we now know about learning to school design; we help them live next gen learning professionally; and we work with them to generate environments in which next gen learning can flourish.
Learn MoreWith your donation, NGLC can support more school communities with their brave work creating more equitable next gen learning for students.
Learn MoreToday’s learners face an uncertain present and a rapidly changing future that demands far different skills and knowledge than we needed in the 20th century.
Learn MoreNext gen learning serves equity when it takes a cultural lens, values whole person development, and equips students and educators to address injustice.
Learn MoreEducators are combining the best of what we know about purposeful, authentic learning with bold ideas about student success to completely reimagine schools.
Learn MoreWhen educators design and create new schools, and live next gen learning themselves, they take the lead in growing next gen learning across the nation.
Learn MoreEducators are rethinking the purposes, forms, and very nature of assessment, designing assessment for learning as an integral part of the learning process.
Learn MoreIf educators are to enable powerful, authentic learning among their students, they need to live that kind of learning and professional culture themselves.
Learn MoreEducators often make use of ed tech as they make the shifts in instruction, teacher roles, and learning experiences that next gen learning requires.
Learn MoreNext gen learning happens when everyone—kids and adults alike—takes charge of their own learning and has the opportunity to do their best possible work.
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