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New Designs for School

What COVID Taught Us about Good Learning and Strong Systems

The pandemic created unforeseen challenges, but it also created stronger home-school partnerships and positive changes in teacher practice.
New Designs for School

Taking a Modern Approach to Project-Based Learning

Can project-based learning succeed virtually, during a pandemic? It's possible, as this teacher found by fusing PBL with self-paced, mastery-based instruction.
Professional Learning

In-House Professional Learning

With support from their school's in-house research center, teachers are leading professional learning and innovation.
New Designs for School

A Modern Computer Programming Classroom

With a self-paced, mastery-based instructional design, students in a HS coding course took initiative, coded high-quality programs, and taught others to code.
Designing for Equity

Getting to Brave: How My School Is Uncovering Our Unconscious Racial Bias

When this school examined systemic racism and its impact on students, it found vastly different perspectives on racial bias in culture, practices & policies.
Reimagining Assessment

Falsehoods We Believe about Assessment

This list examines K-12 education's false assumptions about assessment, in the tradition of popular "Falsehoods" lists.
New Designs for School

Nurturing Identity and Belonging in a Challenging Time

​Educators at Barnstable Intermediate School design learning to promote student engagement, empowerment, and connections to each other and the community.
Enabling Change

The Question Everyone in Public Education Should Be Asking Right Now

What can we learn from those public schools and districts that pivoted creatively and effectively in the face of COVID-19?
Building Community

7 Steps toward Schoolwide Implementation

An instructional coach worked with a school team on these 7 steps to support teachers as they shifted to self-paced, mastery-based learning.
Enabling Change

PRESS RELEASE: NGLC Launches New Transformation Design Initiative

Inclusive framework, developed by groundbreaking partner districts, outlines core practices to bring about fundamental changes long and urgently needed in K-12 education.