New Designs for School
Three Ways Franklin Is Doing High School Differently
Franklin High School is moving "from Portrait to Practice” and doing high school differently with three systems-level changes.
Professional Learning
Because big challenges demand brave solutions.
Don't go back to the way things were. Join Bravely and get the peer connection, expert support, and skills in liberatory transformation design that will take learning forward in your district.
Don't go back to the way things were. Join Bravely and get the peer connection, expert support, and skills in liberatory transformation design that will take learning forward in your district.
Why Schools Need to Change
What happens AFTER a school district adopts a Portrait of a Graduate?
To find out, explore student work, first-hand narratives, podcasts, teacher tools, professional learning, and so much more in The Portrait of a Graduate in Practice!
To find out, explore student work, first-hand narratives, podcasts, teacher tools, professional learning, and so much more in The Portrait of a Graduate in Practice!
Designing for Equity
How can we design and teach for equity?
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.
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.
Why Schools Need to Change
Student-centered innovation requires student-centered evidence!
Explore NGLC's Full Spectrum of Evidence Toolkit.
Explore NGLC's Full Spectrum of Evidence Toolkit.
We Are All Designing the Future of Public Education.
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.
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With your donation, NGLC can support more school communities with their brave work creating more equitable next gen learning for students.
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Why Schools Need to Change
Today’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 MoreDesigning for Equity
Next gen learning serves equity when it takes a cultural lens, values whole person development, and equips students and educators to address injustice.
Learn MoreNew Designs for School
Educators are combining the best of what we know about purposeful, authentic learning with bold ideas about student success to completely reimagine schools.
Learn MoreBuilding Community
When 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 MoreReimagining Assessment
Educators are rethinking the purposes, forms, and very nature of assessment, designing assessment for learning as an integral part of the learning process.
Learn MoreProfessional Learning
If educators are to enable powerful, authentic learning among their students, they need to live that kind of learning and professional culture themselves.
Learn MoreTechnology Tools
Educators often make use of ed tech as they make the shifts in instruction, teacher roles, and learning experiences that next gen learning requires.
Learn MoreEnabling Change
Next 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.
Learn MoreStories We're Telling
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