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Professional Learning

Learning Excursions

Giving teachers personalized professional learning authentically enables next gen personalized learning for students. We look at an example of this with a recent "learning excursion" to San Diego schools.
New Designs for School

Early Progress: Interim Research on Personalized Learning

Interim findings from an ongoing study of NGLC & other personalized learning schools; RAND, November 2014
New Designs for School

Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning: Inspiring Stories from Next Gen Schools

Narrative report tracing the journey of 11 NGLC schools through the lens of the Personalized Learning School Design Attributes
New Designs for School

Magnolia Montessori For All: A Hybrid Model That Asks Big Questions

This school displays the aspirational “dream big” type of innovation that is at the core of NGLC's work.
Professional Learning

Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning: Competency-based Teacher Preparation and Development

By Karen Cator, Carri Schneider & Tom Vander Ark. 

If we truly are to harness the power that technology brings and seize the moment wrought by new college and career-ready standards supported by aligned assessments, we must reexamine the processes and methods used to prepare teachers, accredit institutions doing the preparing, and support continuous development of teacher competency throughout their professional careers. 
Building Community

Moving Towards Next Gen Learning

Reimagining the desired outcomes and the common student experience of America’s public schools is a messy, chaotic business–and that’s what real change looks like.
Technology Tools

College Ready Learning Technologies

Catalogue featuring NGLC grant recipients and additional projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, organized by content area
Building Community

Next Generation Learning: The Pathway to Possibility

“Next generation learning” is about engaging with today’s students through “next generation” teaching and learning designs (white paper)
New Designs for School

Moving at Your Own Pace

Get the evidence behind “moving at your own pace” and examples of this instructional move in practice.
Designing for Equity

The Myths of Competency-Based Education: Questions of Equity and Quality

With the help of student success coaches, CBE programs provide both workforce preparation and intellectual development for non-traditional students.