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New Designs for School

Some of These Things are Not Like the Others: CBE in Higher Ed and K12

A look at the differences in purpose, driving forces, targeted population, and organizational scale between competency-based education in K12 and higher ed.
Why Schools Need to Change

A quest to understand America’s math problem

Ko’s Journey creator Scott Laidlaw of Imagine Education describes how a quest to teach math to middle schoolers turned into a bigger quest to understanding how so many classrooms do it wrong.
Enabling Change

No Better Choice for the Scholars We Serve

To create a whole new type of school by building a Next Generation High School ​is ​an amazing opportunity to shift the paradigm of education. ​
Technology Tools

How EAA’s Personalized Learning Platform Works

At the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan, an online platform is shifting the way student-centered classes are structured.
Enabling Change

D.C.-Area K-12 Changemakers featured in Michael & Susan Dell Foundation podcast

CityBridge’s Margaret Angell joins Principal Scott Cartland in a podcast on personalized learning in the nation’s capital.
New Designs for School

NGLC Updates Profiles of 27 Breakthrough Schools

These one-page snapshot publications provide a quick overview of K-12 grant recipients’ personalized learning models and their plans for breakthrough change.
Professional Learning

Innovative Back to School Professional Development

If you're trying to deliver a 21st century school, your teacher training must reflect the principles of 21st century learning too.
Reimagining Assessment

Creating Space

If we want good things to happen in K-12 education, we have to create space for them. And creating space isn’t easy.
Reimagining Assessment

How Does a Feedback Loop Encourage a Culture of Learning Conversation in the Classroom?

​​Engaging teachers in honest & meaningful feedback loops with one another is one way Henry County Schools models learning conversations for students.​
Why Schools Need to Change

Problem-Based Learning: Preparing Students for the Race of Their Lives

What's the value of instruction that offers theory without valuable, hands-on practical experience?