New Designs for School
Schools Should Be Cathedrals of Learning
When we focus solely on pedagogy and instruction and neglect the physical environment of schools and classrooms, we leave 25 percent of learning progress untapped.
Why Schools Need to Change
What do learners need to thrive in a world of change?
NGLC’s MyWays™ project helps educators like you fully prepare the students of today for a challenging, unpredictable tomorrow.
NGLC’s MyWays™ project helps educators like you fully prepare the students of today for a challenging, unpredictable tomorrow.
Building Community
MyWays in LiFT
Create your own personalized pathway to next generation learning with this free tool for educators and schools. LEARN MORE
Create your own personalized pathway to next generation learning with this free tool for educators and schools. LEARN MORE
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.
Professional Learning
Transform your teaching with Learn Next
Grow your next gen practice with these self-paced and free Learn Next courses for educators. LEARN MORE
Grow your next gen practice with these self-paced and free Learn Next courses for educators. LEARN MORE
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.
Learn MoreLet's Lead the Change Together.
For educators and school communities looking for help with learning and school redesign: NGLC offers customized guidance and deep learning experiences to help you solve the complex challenges that come with transforming schools to equitably prepare your students for the fast-changing world.
Learn MoreChallenges We Are Working to Solve
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
See MoreHow You Can Get Involved
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Enlist our Services
Leading the change to create new designs for schools is a complex challenge. NGLC can help.
Attend an Event
Connect with fellow educators in the NGLC community who are passionate about next gen learning.
Apply for a Grant
NGLC invests in the big ideas of educators who want to solve the urgent challenges of K-12 education. Find out if new grant opportunities are available.
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