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Why Schools Need to Change

Engagement, Empathy, and Empowerment for Service

Learners develop real-world skills and global mindsets through service projects at Sunset Middle School in Longmont, CO.
Why Schools Need to Change

NGLC brings MyWays framework to Bullitt County, KY forum

At a community forum in Bullitt County, KY, participants explored a new vision for learning and student success.
Professional Learning

Hacking the Boston Public Schools' Innovation Incubator

The Innovation Incubator's planning team applied the same hacking mindset taught in the professional development program to improve the program itself.
Why Schools Need to Change

Using Community Ideas to Shape the Vision for a Career Superhighway

Vista Unified is using the design thinking process with community representatives to re-envision career development in the region.
Building Community

Friendship: A Sign of High-Performing Schools?

What is the most important way to measure staff culture in a school?
Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays Real-World Learning Readiness & Preparation Tool

May 2019

Use this self-assessment tool from the NGLC MyWays project to examine readiness of your school and wider community and to prepare learners, educators, and community partners for real-world learning.

Reimagining Assessment

Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments: Lessons From Hawaiian-Focused Charter Schools

Hawaiian-focused Charter School students complete culturally relevant capstone projects at key moments in their education journey to demonstrate their learning.
Professional Learning

It's a Tough Time for Teachers. Here's Why I'm Joining the Profession.

As an African American man who is determined to shape young lives and lift up my community, I can’t think of a more powerful job.
Building Community

Student Experience: The Key to Deepening Student Learning

DC charter and district teachers together created critical thinking and problem solving rubrics, performance assessments, and instructional design.
Enabling Change

A Lawyer Walks into a Classroom

How my experience as an attorney helps me teach—and how you can apply that in your own classes (without enduring law school!).