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Technology Tools

Four Modes of Instruction

Tech can be a transformative tool in classrooms but only when it serves to enhance both human connection and the efficacy of other modes of instruction.
Why Schools Need to Change

Why We Have Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Urgency and Too Little of the Right Kind in Education

The urgency around learning loss is keeping education spinning in place when the urgency we need is to reimagine schools to address deeply rooted challenges.
Enabling Change

From Planning to Action: Advancing Tailored Acceleration

Policymakers and education leaders can take these actions to create the space and flexibility for schools to launch innovative individualized student learning experiences.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Next Gen Learning Community Rises to Embrace Our Second Decade

As NGLC enters its second decade of transforming learning, we invite you to celebrate the innovative educators who are making equitable next gen learning a reality for students!
New Designs for School

All Learning Is Social and Emotional

Is there any good reason to categorize different forms of learning, to identify what's academic, interpersonal, content, skill, or emotional development?
Reimagining Assessment

1 Simple Way to Bring Joy and Meaning to Student Reflections

Student reflection is an important formative assessment strategy. Find out how teachers can use lateral thinking to make it both joyful and meaningful.
Designing for Equity

5 Lessons (and Counting) from Our Effort to Remake NGLC as an Anti-Racist Organization with Diverse Co-Directors

Our journey isn't done & may never be. But in launching the transformation of NGLC to integrate next gen learning with social justice, we are learning a lot that may help others traveling a similar path.
Enabling Change

Emancipatory Organizational Design: An Alternative to School and District Bureaucracy

Discover the 8 characteristics of an "emancipatory organizational design" for school districts, and move to school systems that create coherence, equity, and powerful learning for students and adults.
Designing for Equity

A Case Study in Community Engagement: Grappling with Challenges to Standards-Based Grades

Community engagement means listening deeply, learning and responding. What happens when students, families, or staff question practices central to your learning design?
New Designs for School

Da Vinci Schools: A Visionary Breakthrough School that’s Still Ahead of Its Time

Find out how Da Vinci Schools is defining the future of learning and why project-based, real-world learning is even more important today than ever.