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New Designs for School

The MyWays Learning Outcomes: A Preview

March 2019

From Next Generation Learning Challenges, this preview provides an excerpt of The MyWays Learning Outcomes tool as an illustration of the resources it contains. The preview includes 12 of the more than 130 end-of-high-school learning outcomes that make up the complete set, organized by the four competency domains of the MyWays Student Success Framework.

Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays 5 Zones of the Wider Learning Ecosystem Tool

April 2019

Use this tool from the NGLC MyWays project to reflect on your own personal experiences with real-world learning; to inventory your school's, district's, or network's existing Wider Learning Ecosystem offerings; and to identify potential assets and opportunities aligned to the 5 Zones of the Wider Learning Ecosystem: school-based extracurriculars, college-based learning, career-related learning, community-mediated learning, and everyday informal & formal learning.
Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays Key Elements of Real-World Learning Tool

April 2019

Use this tool from the NGLC MyWays project, which identifies six key elements of effective real-world learning (RWL), to explore sample experiences, to assess and improve an existing RWL experience, and as a set of design criteria for developing a new RWL experience.
Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays Real-World Learning Social Capital Tool

April 2019

Use this tool from the NGLC MyWays project to assess the types of social capital in real-world learning experiences, to identify strengths, weaknesses, and ways to improve real-world learning through social capital.
Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays Real-World Learning Readiness & Preparation Tool

May 2019

Use this self-assessment tool from the NGLC MyWays project to examine readiness of your school and wider community and to prepare learners, educators, and community partners for real-world learning.

Designing for Equity

Liberatory Design Cards

This card deck is adapted from the Stanford d.school's design thinking process and the National Equity Project's equity leadership development approach. It provides education leaders a toolkit for practicing Liberatory Design and includes three sections: 1) Liberatory Design Process, 2) Liberatory Design Mindsets, and 3) Liberatory Design Do Nows.

Stanford d.school K12 Lab Network and the National Equity Project
Designing for Equity

Designing with Diverse Communities: Recommended Readings & Resources

An intentional school design process requires stakeholder input and ownership, which often starts with a community-based research process. This process asks school designers to partake in personal, reflective identity work before (and while) collaborating with various stakeholders, such as community leaders, parents, and students themselves. This set of resources, tools, and readings—some practical and some theory-based—can help designers as they begin to think about and engage in school design.

Springpoint Schools
New Designs for School

Instructional Look Fors: Resources to Enable Personalized Learning

The Instructional Look Fors aim to help educators build clarity and confidence in pursuing personalized learning by sharing the lessons learned at Summit Public Schools and Lindsay Unified School District, as well as research-based practices. This resource articulates six core principles and corresponding educator and student actions that foster quality personalized learning classrooms.

Lindsay Unified School District, Summit Public Schools, and Transcend Inc.
Enabling Change

Aligning Education Policy with the Science of Learning and Development

This report analyzes recent learning sciences research and provides nine recommendations to address a critical need: how can education policy support and align with the science of learning and development? Research on how students learn and develop is providing teachers, practitioners, and policymakers with insights on how to help students learn and grow academically and develop holistically to achieve successful outcomes in their education and in life.

Aurora Institute
Professional Learning

In the Driver’s Seat: Online Professional Learning Design Features in Action

This resource provides a research-based framework of six quality drivers for online teacher learning. It draws upon a literature review of adult learning and online professional learning for educators. It includes a summary of the framework, vignettes, a deep dive report into the research literature, and an assessment tool that supports school and district leaders in platform evaluation and evidence-gathering.

The Learning Accelerator, in partnership with EdSurge