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Why Schools Need to Change

What Happens When You Really Listen? Student Voices Reshaping Policy

The "If You Ask Me..." student voice exhibit helps New Mexico educators and policy makers change the conversation and keep the needs of students at the center.
Why Schools Need to Change

Teaching Community and Knowing Students

A recent experience reminds the author of the power of feeling known by someone and the centrality of community and relationship building for schools.
New Designs for School

Developing Wayfinders with Learning Plans

Two elementary school teachers use learning plans to help students develop wayfinding skills like goal-setting and exercising agency.
Why Schools Need to Change

'How Do We Steer This Thing?' The Missing Element in Next Generation Learning

The concept of "cornerstone careers" may help many more school communities transform learning to address the lack of economic mobility for low-income youth.
Reimagining Assessment

How’s Discipline at Your School? Don’t Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

The results of a national study on perceptions of school discipline fairness can help start conversations about discipline policy and leading by listening.
New Designs for School

The MyWays Learning Outcomes: A Preview

March 2019

From Next Generation Learning Challenges, this preview provides an excerpt of The MyWays Learning Outcomes tool as an illustration of the resources it contains. The preview includes 12 of the more than 130 end-of-high-school learning outcomes that make up the complete set, organized by the four competency domains of the MyWays Student Success Framework.

Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays 5 Zones of the Wider Learning Ecosystem Tool

April 2019

Use this tool from the NGLC MyWays project to reflect on your own personal experiences with real-world learning; to inventory your school's, district's, or network's existing Wider Learning Ecosystem offerings; and to identify potential assets and opportunities aligned to the 5 Zones of the Wider Learning Ecosystem: school-based extracurriculars, college-based learning, career-related learning, community-mediated learning, and everyday informal & formal learning.
Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays Key Elements of Real-World Learning Tool

April 2019

Use this tool from the NGLC MyWays project, which identifies six key elements of effective real-world learning (RWL), to explore sample experiences, to assess and improve an existing RWL experience, and as a set of design criteria for developing a new RWL experience.
Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays Real-World Learning Social Capital Tool

April 2019

Use this tool from the NGLC MyWays project to assess the types of social capital in real-world learning experiences, to identify strengths, weaknesses, and ways to improve real-world learning through social capital.
Reimagining Assessment

Culturally Responsive Assessment Practices through Nā Hopena Aʻo (HĀ)

The Hawai'i DOE Office of Hawaiian Education is piloting a proficiency-based assessment model that is culturally responsive and place-based.