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Why Schools Need to Change

Revisiting Disobedience Instruction as Classroom Structural Change

Teaching students to say “no” creates emboldened, not disrespectful, critical thinkers who can explore and navigate a flourishing democratic society.
Designing for Equity

An Imperfect Ally: Why I Work to Transform Education

What does it mean to be an ally for social justice, on the job? How might a member of the NGLC team act as an ally to the students and communities we serve?
Building Community

How Next Gen Educators Are Inspiring and Leading Next Gen Learning This Year

What we care about in 2019: diversity, creativity, deep learning, and the nature of change. Take a look at these stories to inspire!
New Designs for School

Teaching (and Learning) Humanity at Philadelphia’s Workshop School

The Workshop School seeks to recognize students’ humanity & cultivate their unique gifts to both give and receive through a “community first” principle.
New Designs for School

Students before Content: The True Power of Relationships in the Classroom

By treating my students with kindness and respecting their voices, I’ve seen unprecedented levels of engagement and positivity in the classroom.
Designing for Equity

Mr. Sundays: A Latino Teacher's Exploration

For many students, I have been the first and only Latino teacher they will ever have. There is a great sadness in this.
New Designs for School

School principal credits NGLC and Mass IDEAS for redesign inspiration, support

Monument Mountain Regional High School principal Kristi Farina shares the impact of a recent NGLC Learning Excursion and a Mass IDEAS planning grant.
Designing for Equity

Designing with Diverse Communities: Recommended Readings & Resources

An intentional school design process requires stakeholder input and ownership, which often starts with a community-based research process. This process asks school designers to partake in personal, reflective identity work before (and while) collaborating with various stakeholders, such as community leaders, parents, and students themselves. This set of resources, tools, and readings—some practical and some theory-based—can help designers as they begin to think about and engage in school design.

Springpoint Schools
New Designs for School

Instructional Look Fors: Resources to Enable Personalized Learning

The Instructional Look Fors aim to help educators build clarity and confidence in pursuing personalized learning by sharing the lessons learned at Summit Public Schools and Lindsay Unified School District, as well as research-based practices. This resource articulates six core principles and corresponding educator and student actions that foster quality personalized learning classrooms.

Lindsay Unified School District, Summit Public Schools, and Transcend Inc.
Enabling Change

Aligning Education Policy with the Science of Learning and Development

This report analyzes recent learning sciences research and provides nine recommendations to address a critical need: how can education policy support and align with the science of learning and development? Research on how students learn and develop is providing teachers, practitioners, and policymakers with insights on how to help students learn and grow academically and develop holistically to achieve successful outcomes in their education and in life.

Aurora Institute