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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Note to School Districts: Fish, Cut Bait, or Swim to Shore

School districts are organized as bureaucracies that often get in the way of, rather than provide meaningful support for, teaching and learning.
New Designs for School

MyWays in LiFT brings project-based learning to the next level

Redefine student success for your school community with this flexible project-based learning platform.
New Designs for School

Transforming High School by Engaging Student Voice: Co-Creating Learning

Vista High School educators listened to students explain how they see their voices impacting their learning within a co-created project.
New Designs for School

The Many-Teacher Classroom

As educators, we want to foster collaborative learning experiences. How can we set up classrooms in which they authentically occur?
New Designs for School

Our Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The NGLC team's beliefs and intentions regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).