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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.
New Designs for School

The Power of Local Networks: NGLC Regional Funds

With Breakthrough Schools: Chicago, a NGLC Regional Funds grant program which began in 2015, LEAP innovations catalyzed next generation learning models in schools across the city of Chicago. In this video, Chicago changemakers Phyllis Lockett and Amy Huang offer their perspective on personalized learning and the power of local networks to support innovation and student success in K-12 education. (Next Generation Learning Challenges, November 2021)
New Designs for School

The Power of Local Networks

In this video, Chicago changemakers Phyllis Lockett and Amy Huang offer their perspective on Breakthrough Schools: Chicago, a NGLC Regional Funds grant challenge led by LEAP Innovations.
Reimagining Assessment

Measures that Matter Most: Q&A with Two Rivers

Two Rivers staff share an update on their work to measure the transfer of deeper learning outcomes documented in NGLC's Measures that Matter Most research project.
Reimagining Assessment

10 Years of Next Gen Learning

Explore the stories tracing a decade of next generation learning and community-building for equity and innovation.