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Why Schools Need to Change

Life Ready Graduate: Redefining Learning at Ephrata

The Life Ready Graduate competencies provide clarity, purpose, and direction to Ephrata Area School District’s personalized, tech-embedded instructional model and learning environment.
New Designs for School

It’s Time to Roll with Polyhedral Pedagogy

Evidence suggests that tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) can transform learning. One teacher is demonstrating the advantages of instructing with TTRPGs.
Designing for Equity

Finding Their Voice: Empowering Non-Verbal Students through Communication

Three essential shifts can help educators rethink ‘student voice’ and create an inclusive classroom for non-speaking or minimally-speaking students.
New Designs for School

Signal Strength: When Learning Survives Beyond the Bell

What do students remember from your lessons each day? Here's how you can help them focus on what matters to support meaningful, and enduring, learning.
Technology Tools

Students as AI Natives: Rethinking Learning for the Next Generation

AI that replaces learning undermines the very purpose of education. But when AI informs and augments learning, it enables deeper engagement and more analysis, critical thinking, and creativity.
Enabling Change

NGLC Impact Report 2025

In this biannual impact report, NGLC's impact is defined by research and development efforts supporting human-centered AI for student-centered learning, communities of practice to transform student outcomes through NGLC's Bravely and Learning Excursions, and amplifying the voices of innovative educators and their partners. Download a PDF version, or view the report on Heyzine.

Building Community

From the Factory Line to the Classroom: How I Built the Culture I Thought Would Take Years

The routines, structures, and clarity of an innovative learning model can help teachers build positive, supportive systems and culture in their classroom.
New Designs for School

Cracking the Code on K–2 Literacy Using Manipulatives

A phonics-focused walkthrough and coaching process is making sure K-2 students are building the neural pathways required to move from learning to read to reading to learn.
Why Schools Need to Change

Your Favorite Learning Experience Charts the Way to a Learning Revolution for All of K-12

What if schools were designed to spark powerful, purposeful, super-engaging, life-enhancing learning all the time, every day?
New Designs for School

Boost Students’ Academic Experiences with Small Group Learning Pods

Small group learning benefits from spaces that are designed to support peer-to-peer discussions, group project work, and differentiated instruction.