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Blended 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?
New Designs for School

A Trip to the Windy City and Intrinsic Schools

Intrinsic Schools experienced two drastic changes between its first and second years: moving to a new-construction building and placing an intentional focus on culture.
New Designs for School

A Trip to Cesar Chávez School in Back-of-the-Yards Chicago

I recently visited Chavez with a group of teachers from Washington, D.C. who are part of the CityBridge Foundation’s Teacher Innovation Fellowship.
New Designs for School

The Road to College & Career

Readying students for college and career has been the focal point of K-12 education reform in recent years, and many new efforts feature technology in a starring role.
New Designs for School

Dollars & Sense: Analyzing Financial Decisions in NGLC K-12 Breakthrough Model Schools

Is personalized learning meeting its productivity promise? The latest brief from the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) examines the budgets, operations, and sustainability of 20 breakthrough model schools in search of answers.
Professional Learning

Top 10 Blogs about K-12 Next Gen Learning

As the newest member of the NGLC K-12 team, I wondered which blogs our grantees and staff considered the best blogs about next gen learning…these blogs topped the list.
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Academic and Business Models for K-12 Schools: Resources for Wave IV Applicants

Examples of and theoretical and evidence-based perspectives on academic and business modeling for "breakthrough" secondary schools.​
Building Community

Creating Breakthrough Schools, One Region at a Time

NGLC has a call out for regionally-based partner organizations to become local incubators of next generation learning. The goal is a critical mass of new or redesigned schools that meet the needs of individual students and result in dramatic improvements in student outcomes.
Reimagining Assessment

Digital Badges and Academic Transformation

In higher ed, digital badges represent successful completion of a variety of learning experiences both inside and outside of the traditional for-credit course.
Technology Tools

Investing in Personalized Learning Strategies to Improve College Student Outcomes

Jason Palmer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shares his passion for the power of education to transform lives.