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Profile: Venture Academy

This 6-12 charter school in Minneapolis MN is designed to educate the next generation of innovative entrepreneurs and inventors who can use knowledge to pull apart, reassemble, and redesign ideas. Like inventors, they are expected to be driven, self-motivated directors of their own learning, using assessment feedback to develop their individual learning plans. They rotate through stations to learn academic content and test their own inventiveness.
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Fayette County Public Schools: The STEAM Academy

Urban Fayette County Public Schools is designing and implementing this blended high school in partnership with the University of Kentucky so that students will graduate college and career ready and college and career experienced. District innovation waivers and UK’s P20 Innovation Lab create a supportive environment for student-paced, mastery-based, and problem-based experiential learning.
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Leadership Public Schools: Oakland R&D Campus

With this 9-12 school in Oakland, CA, Leadership Public Schools is expanding its role as “collaborative innovator,” working with teachers and students to design blended learning environments and tools that help lay the foundation for key skills, personalize learning, and promote 21st century thinking. While the learning structure is fixed, the actual content (not just digital) and tools may evolve from year to year as teachers test and evaluate open educational content or refine their needs.
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Starting Out on the Right Foot

Wisdom from leaders of new and redesigned school models
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Lessons for Launching a Breakthrough Model School

​Four leaders of NGLC-funded breakthrough schools share lessons learned from their first year launch.​
Professional Learning

Supporting Teachers of Middle School Math

A teacher forum to support the pilot of an educational game evolves into a national conference for middle school math educators.
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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.
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Choosing the right scaling strategy for your school model

One of the criteria NGLC uses in selecting potential launch (and to a somewhat lesser extent planning) grantees is scalability.
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Next Gen Schools Thriving in Detroit

Four personalized, blended, competency-based schools in Detroit are excellent examples of seven design principles for next generation learning.​
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Profile: Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity Prep opened serving Pre-School and Kindergarten students in the nation’s capital, with plans to grow up to 8th grade. The school’s model is grounded on the four pillars of more time on task, looping teams of content-specialized teachers, a blended model driven by mission-aligned outcomes, and time explicitly devoted to 21st century civic leadership competencies.