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Personalized learning

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.
New Designs for School

Beyond Student-Teacher Ratios: How Breakthrough Schools Invest in Human Capital

How do personalized learning schools plan to use human capital resources?
New Designs for School

Match Education: Match Next

A tutor guides a small group of students while a master teacher circulates the room to provide feedback, support, and to pull out students for additional instruction in this high-touch, deeply personalized Boston middle school. The charter organization envisions the school as a research platform that can generate knowledge about the technology and tools that work best with low-income, inner-city students in order to serve a growing community of blended learning schools.
New Designs for School

Profile: Foundations College Prep

At this 6-12 Chicago school that opened in Fall 2014, differentiation is key not just for the students – who access adaptive digital content and participate in diversified classroom rotations – but also for the teachers. Multiple teacher roles include expert teachers, resident teachers (those with limited experience), and instructional leads. The Foundations team hopes that the school, grounded in a rigorous college prep curriculum, creates learners who can perform as well as or better than their higher-income peers.
Building Community

Next Gen Learning at Summit Basecamp

Reflections from a participant among the first cohort to participate in Summit Basecamp, a 2-week summer training for schools adopting the Personalized Learning Platform.
Why Schools Need to Change

What Would Socrates Wonder about Next Gen Learning?

What would Socrates, one of history’s most iconic gadflys, wonder about next generation learning? What questions or provocations or iconoclastic statements would he pose to those of us pushing for “next gen” or personalized learning?
New Designs for School

What’s New About Next Gen Learning?

Isn’t ‘Next Gen’ or ‘personalized’ learning simply a new label on an old concept?
Designing for Equity

Accountability, Equity and Personalization

San Diego State’s Joe Johnson explains how communities might embrace accountability in ways that help them work toward deeper, richer outcomes for all children.
Building Community

In Chicago and Elsewhere, A “Both-And” Strategy Expands Next Gen Learning

The new NGLC Regional Funds effort launched its second pilot city with Breakthrough Schools: Chicago.
Designing for Equity

Can an Emerging Approach to K-12 Education Buck the Troubling Trend on Women in Leadership?

Personalized learning gives girls the chance to try, to fail, and to shine without seeing roadblocks as absolute barriers.