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Personalized learning

Building Community

Teaching beyond the (Modern) Classroom

What motivates a teacher to transform the way they teach? A look at educators using blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning in their classrooms.
New Designs for School

Profile: Montessori For All - Magnolia Montessori

The founders of Montessori For All, which opened Magnolia Montessori--a PK-8 public charter school in Austin, Texas--created a new school model that blends the best of authentic Montessori schooling (hands-on and self-directed learning) with best practices from high-performing charter schools (basic skills mastery to excel on standardized tests and state assessments) in a blended learning environment. Montessori For All provides students with standards-aligned experiential learning in a racially, culturally, and socio-economically diverse environment.
New Designs for School

Danville Independent Schools: Bate Middle School and Danville High School

This small district south of Lexington, KY is completely redesigning its only middle school and high school by adopting a competency-based blended learning model. Personalized learning pathways directly link middle school, high school, and college curriculum. Projects play a central role in the new learning environment which aims to equip students with 21st century skills so they can seize their place in the Information Age as inventive learners.
New Designs for School

Fueling the Fire: Training for Leadership at Alpha Public Schools

After years of teamwork, reflection, and dedication to SEL and student leadership, Alpha Public Schools's Personalized Leadership Training has gone viral.
New Designs for School

What Do a Dead Guinea Pig and a Lemonade Stand Have to Do With Real Learning?

Lessons from Montessori on weaving independence, self-direction and respect into children's public school experience every day.
New Designs for School

Defining Personalization: Students As Agents and Teachers As Coaches

3 school examples show that personalization is most effective when students become active agents involved in determining what and how they learn.
Designing for Equity

Vista Unified’s P-3 Continuum: Closing the Achievement Gap Before It Opens

Vista Unified is expanding early education supports through the design of a prenatal-to-grade-three pathway, a P-3 continuum.
Enabling Change

EdReform in the Modern Era

Where NGLC and next gen learning fit in the history of education reform.
Enabling Change

Relationships are Behind All Good Learning

Read this sample of keynote speakers, presenters, and colleague discussions about relationships in next gen, personalized learning at the iNACOL Symposium.
New Designs for School

Why Every Student Should Have a Mentor and Every Teacher Should Be One

Mentorship in middle and high school has the power to impact the course of students’ academic and personal life trajectories.