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Personalized learning

Enabling Change

Personal Learning: Perspectives from Schools, Districts, and the Community

As many U.S. school districts struggle to implement personalized learning, educators and school leaders can look to some exemplars that are paving the way.
Professional Learning

Learning Excursions

Giving teachers personalized professional learning authentically enables next gen personalized learning for students. We look at an example of this with a recent "learning excursion" to San Diego schools.
New Designs for School

Celebrating XQ Super Schools with NGLC Roots: Summit Elevate

The leaders of Summit Elevate are reshaping the future of high school. Learn about their history of innovative, personalized learning school design.
New Designs for School

Vista Unified Sets Sights on Personal Learning 2.0: Powerful Performance Frameworks

When over 50% of its schools opted to actively engage in the "Personal Learning Challenge," Vista Unified began transforming how the district itself operated.
Professional Learning

Innovation Equity

​People all over the country, and world, are working on the same education issues. We need to share out, listen, learn, and collaborate.
Building Community

Educator Networks: Building a Community to Advance Learning

The Gates Foundation and FSG released a report bout network design and theory and how we apply it in education.
New Designs for School

Lessons from The Voice: Fitting-Out is the New Fitting-In

​The big take away is that “fitting out” is the new “fitting in.” School designers and system reformers take note: it may be time for us to embrace this difference making truth.​
Reimagining Assessment

The Virtues and Vices of Portfolio Assessment

A portfolio lends itself naturally to assessment, whose aim is to collect evidence to answer a question about learning or performance.
Designing for Equity

Rethinking the Achievement Gap (Part 3)

For those of us committed to educating disadvantaged kids, the skill set we need to help them develop goes way beyond reading and math: we need to teach them how to navigate and negotiate a world that is hostile to their very existence.
New Designs for School

Celebrating XQ Super Schools with NGLC Roots: Washington Leadership Academy

Learn about the history of innovation behind the founders of Washington Leadership Academy, recently recognized with a $10 million grant to rethink high school.