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Professional Learning

In the Driver’s Seat: Online Professional Learning Design Features in Action

This resource provides a research-based framework of six quality drivers for online teacher learning. It draws upon a literature review of adult learning and online professional learning for educators. It includes a summary of the framework, vignettes, a deep dive report into the research literature, and an assessment tool that supports school and district leaders in platform evaluation and evidence-gathering.

The Learning Accelerator, in partnership with EdSurge
Professional Learning

Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework

This report includes the key competencies and effective practices of teachers in successful blended learning environments. Twelve key competencies are organized into four domains: mindsets, qualities, adaptive skills, and technical skills. This tool offers insights into the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to make make new instructional methods successful. Emphasis is placed on the mindsets, qualities, and skills that support practitioners’ creative and continuous improvement as well as ability to thrive amidst change. NGLC contributed to the national committee's work.

iNACOL and The Learning Accelerator
Professional Learning

Teacher Onboarding: A Problem of Practice Series

This collection examines teacher onboarding for next gen, blended learning, why it is important and what the research says. It offers actionable solutions, resources, and real-world examples of how others have succeeded. Specific topics include communicating the purpose and vision of the innovative model, preparing teachers to be successful in the innovative model, and ensuring teachers understand and engage with the communities they serve.

The Learning Accelerator
Enabling Change

Look Both Ways

A framework to help education leaders navigate through competing approaches to system-wide change. The framework highlights seven common decision-making challenges and presents real-world examples that show how other leaders managed these tensions.

The Learning Accelerator
Building Community

Learning Commons

Connecting & Accelerating Educator Learning: The Learning Commons is a free and open site that offers professional learning resources from content providers, educational research institutions, professional development organizations, and school districts to help implement innovative approaches to teaching, including blended and personalized learning. Discover community-vetted resources and curated content playlists, or create your own! NGLC contributes to the Learning Commons.

The Learning Accelerator and Yet Analytics, supported by partnerships with a growing list of innovative education organizations
Reimagining Assessment

School Profiles: Helping College Admissions Teams Understand Deeper Learning

Schools can use their school profile to convey how students experience performance-based assessment, project-based learning, and academic internships.
New Designs for School

Can High Schoolers Handle Internships in the Tech World?

Tech companies are desperate to grow their workforce and high school internships can help young people get past the significant barriers to enter tech.
Enabling Change

Deeper Learning Networks: Taking Student-Centered Learning and Equity to Scale

In examining how three networks (Big Picture Learning, Internationals Network for Public Schools, and New Tech Network) have re-created and sustained deeper learning models in dozens and sometimes hundreds of schools, this study found that they have done so by attending to multiple dimensions of change, ranging from structures to redesign schools and sustain deeper learning environments to partnerships with local stakeholders, robust systems of professional development, and systems for continuous improvement. The processes and systems have coalesced to support the sustainability and growth of these deeper learning models over time, helping to push against the obstacles that have often impeded fundamental change.

Laura E. Hernández, Linda Darling-Hammond, Julie Adams, and Kathryn Bradley, with DeAnna Duncan Grand, Martens Roc, and Peter Ross, Learning Policy Institute
Why Schools Need to Change

How Learning Happens

This video series explores how educators can guide all students, regardless of their developmental starting points, to become productive and engaged learners. Featuring Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of Learning Policy Institute, and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, the videos pair research insights with a variety of illustrative strategies from schools, all grounded in the science of human learning and development.

Edutopia
Enabling Change

Brave before Perfect: Transforming Learning in Rural North Dakota

Northern Cass School District in North Dakota makes quick wins—not quick fixes—to personalize learning.