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New Designs for School

Hard to Do Well: Project-Based Learning and Authentic Learning Design

Authentic, holistic learning design is vital for developing the broader, deeper competencies students need in our increasingly complex and fast-changing world, but it's hard to do it well.
Technology Tools

Expectations for the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment

The Next Gen Digital Learning Environment report sparked a dialogue among several prominent bloggers, and now, we’d like to respond to some of the discussion that emerged since its publication.
New Designs for School

Experts Weigh in on Competency-Based Education

Competency-based approaches to learning—where learning becomes stretched by pace and path—are a game-changer for schools focused on deeper learning outcomes.
Reimagining Assessment

XQ Expert Series: Measuring Progress Toward College and Career Readiness

NGLC's Andy Calkins joins Karen Pittman & Antonia Rudenstine in this podcast hosted by Michele Cahill.
New Designs for School

Financing Personalized Learning: What Can We Learn From First-Generation Adopters?

This paper takes the first systematic look at costs associated with implementing personalized learning schools, how leaders of these schools choose to allocate their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially sustainable on public dollars.
Enabling Change

What Schools Want: How City Leaders Can Help or Hinder Great School Growth

School operators share how city leaders can better support their schools and efforts to grow.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Transformational Vision for Education in the U.S.

A diverse group of educational practitioners, scholars, business people, parents, and advoates came together and create a vision of the future that could unite them.
New Designs for School

Finding True North: A Joyful Learning Experience at Valor Collegiate Academy

Do you equate your work with joy on a daily basis? One charter school has created just that kind of environment—for its students and faculty.
New Designs for School

Aspire Public Schools: CODE Aspire

This is Aspire Public School’s first K-8 blended learning school in the Achievement School District in Memphis, TN. By combining its California-based College for Certain model with a focus on computer coding, Aspire is offering Memphis students a rich STEM-focused education, individualized learning on technology, and explicit instruction in computer coding skills, so that students will be able to better understand the digital world around them, think logically, be creative, learn to find and fix their own problems, and feel empowered.
New Designs for School

Caliber Schools: Caliber: Beta Academy

Caliber: Beta Academy is reimagining education as we know it, with the belief that the innovations in its model will allow 100% of its students to graduate ready to attend and succeed in a competitive four-year college and beyond. The academic model of the school features personalized learning plans, blended learning for English and math, project-based learning for science and social studies, an integrated social and emotional curriculum, daily writing blocks, and daily computer coding/engineering/robotics courses.