Resources

Open-Source Ideas, Tools, and Strategies from Next Gen Learning Innovators

Next gen learning makes it possible for educators who want to improve learning for all of their students to move past “teaching to the middle” and “teaching to the test.” The shift requires different mindsets, practices, and tools. Scroll down to search an ever-expanding harvest of resources from peers who are making the shift to learner-centered practices.

Initiatives

Go deep into these initiatives and learn how the big projects we are working on can help you move toward next gen learning.

Transformation Design

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Transformation Design is an approach to educational systems change that is more inclusive, iterative, and imaginative than what is often used in K-12 education. It takes the principles behind next gen learning and reflects those principles in the process required to get there. Find out what it takes for this kind of learning redesign to succeed.

Designing for Equity in Next Gen Learning

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We collected tools that next generation educators have used to develop an equity lens in professional learning, organizational growth, school culture, and next gen learning design. Use them to create a new narrative in your schools, to actively and thoughtfully design for equity.

What Made Them So Prepared?

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What prepared some schools and districts to pivot effectively when COVID struck? What were the capacities, conditions, and pedagogical hallmarks that enabled them to adapt? NGLC and partners are going to find out.

Mass IDEAS

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Mass IDEAS: Innovating Design in Education for All Students is helping communities across Massachusetts create the great public schools our students deserve.

Assessment for Learning Project

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Through a growing community of practice and a grant program funding bold ideas, NGLC joins a national group of partners inviting the field to fundamentally #rethinkassessment.

MyWays Success Framework

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Use the research, tools, and community you’ll find with MyWays to launch your school-change initiative and reimagine your learning and assessment designs. MyWays can catalyze rich discussions, collaborative development, and transformative culture-building within your team, school, district, and community. #MyWays

Networks for Learning

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Networks are playing an increasing role in shifting to new learning designs in K-12 education. Networks for Learning brings together many voices to generate a new, collective understanding about creating the healthy, equitable connections that help these networks thrive. #Networks4Learning

Measures that Matter Most

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Next generation educators lend their voices to the question: How should schools go about measuring the success of an educational innovation? These educators are developing new approaches to measure and understand broader and deeper student learning and growth.

The Full Spectrum of Evidence Project

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Student stories can validate quantitative metrics of personalized learning, demonstrating that they reflect important changes in students' learning that build a more complete evidence base.

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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.

Designing 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.

New 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.

Building 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.

Reimagining Assessment

Educators are rethinking the purposes, forms, and very nature of assessment, designing assessment for learning as an integral part of the learning process.

Professional Learning

If educators are to enable powerful, authentic learning among their students, they need to live that kind of learning and professional culture themselves.

Technology 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.

Enabling 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.

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Competency-based Education

Gaining knowledge & skills, not time spent

Personalized Learning

Education tailored to, with & by each learner

Project-based Learning

Deep & active with real-world connections

Social-Emotional Learning

Educate hearts, inspire minds, navigate the world

Learner Agency

Deep & durable self in charge of own learning

Student Success

Prepared for learning, work & life

Design Thinking

Creative, disciplined, user-centered process

Change Management

Getting from here...to there

Leadership

Shaping the conditions for next gen learning

School Culture

Beliefs, values, rules, relationships, stories

Finance

Applying funds & resources for learning

Staffing

The personnel behind next gen learning

College & Career

Ties to a learner’s next steps after K–12

Tools for Next Gen Learning

Tech & resources used by next gen educators

Facilities & Classroom Design

Physical spaces that advance learning

Curriculum & Instruction

The content & practice of teaching & learning

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