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Profile: Wheatley Education Campus

Wheatley Education Campus will pilot a competency-based learning model that empowers students to direct their own learning. A personalized grading model will eliminate letter grades and tailor feedback to each student’s specialized academic needs and path.
New Designs for School

Profile: E.L. Haynes High School

This school's planned redesign is intended to create two complementary programs to support students as they transition both to high school and to college.

CityBridge Education, 2014
New Designs for School

Profile: Columbia Heights

This school's redesigned model will dramatically change the structure and flow of the school day. A Personalized Education Platform assesses proficiency in real time, helping teachers finesse instruction and students identify individual areas of focus
New Designs for School

Profile: Breakthrough Montessori

This school will embody a new and distinctive framework for education—one that begins early, supports active, student-centered learning, addresses all dimensions of human development, and engages the family as well as the student.
Enabling Change

Sustaining Innovation & Preparing for Scale: Financial Sustainability Research & Analysis of Personalized Learning School Models

In this report, LEAP Innovations and Afton Partners begin to answer questions of costs, sustainability, and budgets of schools that invest in innovation to create better outcomes for students and build a creative, collaborative, highly skilled workforce in Chicago. They evaluated six school models supported in the NGLC Regional Fund for Breakthrough Schools: Chicago.
Technology Tools

WhyPower: Integrated STEM and Career Education for Middle Schools

Overview of WhyPower, a Common Core-aligned program and supplemental curriculum for teaching math and science to middle schoolers. WhyPower also teaches middle schoolers about careers in energy fields and other STEM fields.
Technology Tools

Common Core State Standards Alignment for Algebra for the 21st Century

“LVS-A21” Developed Activities Aligned to CCSS 

Unit 3: Descriptive Statistics 
Technology Tools

Evaluation of the Lure of the Labyrinth Challenge

By Lindsay Demers, Ph.D., and Jonathan Christiansen

The Lure of the Labyrinth is a math game developed by MIT’s Education Arcade, designed to improve Common Core proficiency and deeper learning skills in middle-school-aged students. To introduce the Lure of the Labyrinth to a variety of teachers and students across the country, the Lure of the Labyrinth Challenge was launched on April 4th and lasted until June 15th, 2012. The evaluation of the Lure of the Labyrinth Challenge was conducted by the STEM Education Evaluation Center (SEEC) at TERC, a non-profit research and development organization in Cambridge, MA. This evaluation provides summative findings regarding how teachers implemented the Lure of the Labyrinth Challenge in the classroom and how students played the game. 
Technology Tools

Get the Math: Impact on Students’ Use of Algebra

By Shalom M. Fisch

Research conducted for Thirteen/WNET, August 17, 2012

An embedded assessment approach was used to evaluate the educational impact of Get the Math, a multimedia project that employs online videos and interactive, game-like challenges to engage middle and high school students in meaningful algebraic problem solving as they attempt to solve real-world problems involving mathematical content such as proportional reasoning, linear relationships, or quadratic functions.
Technology Tools

Building an Aligned System of Digital Content, Individualized Student Playlists, and Deeper Learning Assessments

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Summit Public Schools, an NGLC grant recipient, is a charter management organization serving the Bay Area’s diverse communities. Summit operates six schools enrolling 1,600 students. Summit’s mission is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to not only attend, but succeed in, a four-year college or university. Summit is growing to serve 6,000 students through 14 schools.

Summit Public Schools offers a personalized approach to each individual student’s education. Every Summit student has a Personalized Learning Plan (PLP), where students set learning and personal growth goals, track progress, receive immediate feedback and are able to access learning resources at any time. The PLP is designed to be a dynamic tool where students, families and teachers alike can offer support and coaching. Additionally, students progress through a competency-based curriculum, with the orchestrated support of their teachers and mentors, to ensure that every student has the opportunity to possess the knowledge, skills, behaviors, mindsets, and experiences that lead to college and career readiness.

This personalized learning is possible due to an exceptional teaching faculty dedicated to self-directed learning as well as the technological tools that provide students, families, and teachers with immediate formative assessment feedback, multi-modal learning resources, and collaborative opportunities that were unavailable in the past. While technology has not driven Summit's innovations, it has accelerated our ability to drive towards our vision. In this webinar, the technological tools that we are using will be put within a framework for motivating learning for all students, and the products—some of which are developed in-house, some are paid products, and most are free, modular, and open to everyone—will be briefly demonstrated. Attendees will have the opportunity to indicate which products they would like to see in more depth.

Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 2:00 p.m. ET

Speaker: Adam Carter, Chief Academic Officer, Summit Public Schools

Watch: View the webinar presentation.


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