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Promise and Challenge of the LPS Oakland College Launch Program

For high schoolers, online college courses with supportive wrap-around services provide an on-ramp to college that can greatly increase student success.
Enabling Change

Do the Math SAILS into Tennessee High Schools

Through SAILS, high school students in Tennessee can become college ready in math with Chattanooga State's Do the Math course.
Professional Learning

Learning and The Lean Startup

​Lessons for redesigning K-12 schools from ​The Lean Startup ​by Eric Ries.
New Designs for School

What's All the Buzz About Detroit?

Education in Detroit is coming out of the tailspin. There are some very good schools serving high need populations and it rivals the Bay Area for innovations in blended learning.​
New Designs for School

Early Wins and Alpha’s Top Ten List for New Blended Operators

The first year of a blended learning school is messy but rewarding. Find out how to set your school up for long-term success.
Technology Tools

Bridge to Success: Ready for Crossing

The collaborators on Bridge to Success have recently wrapped up the project’s active phase.
Professional Learning

Improving Teacher Conditions & Careers

Tom Vander Ark and Carrie Schneider discuss teachers, teaching, career paths, and blended learning.
New Designs for School

Are NGLC Breakthrough School Models Disruptive?

This post examines the disruptive nature of NGLC breakthrough school model grantees in light of the new Christensen Institute paper on K-12 blended learning and the theory of hybrids.​​
New Designs for School

RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning

This flexible and dynamic toolkit developed by iNACOL and NGLC can help you manage change and connect with experts to design next gen learning.
New Designs for School

RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning

This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use in the very early stages of conceptualizing and designing a next generation learning program, initiative, or whole school. Rather than offering a prescriptive model to follow, the toolkit helps educators figure out their own goals in blended, personalized, competency-based learning and the pathway to change that best fits their community and students. It organizes the most helpful publications, websites, and tools available today around four key issues: understanding next generation learning models; planning for and managing change; designing next generation learning opportunities; and engaging the planning team and stakeholders in the process. Because few practitioner-created tools exist in this emerging field, the toolkit highlights the essential questions to ask throughout the planning and design process as well as the communities of experts, practitioners, and learners to connect with and learn from.