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Reimagining Assessment

Getting the Most Out of Skill Practice

Practicing skills is important. But what is the right amount of practice and how much does a delay in feedback reduce its effectiveness?
Enabling Change

No Better Choice for the Scholars We Serve

To create a whole new type of school by building a Next Generation High School ​is ​an amazing opportunity to shift the paradigm of education. ​
Technology Tools

Activate Instruction Helps Summit Public Schools Personalize Learning

NGLC has embarked upon a new publication series, Next Gen Tools. Today, we share with you the first brief in the series, Next Gen Tools: Activate Instruction.
Technology Tools

Next Gen Tools: Activate Instruction

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on Summit Public Schools' co-development of Activate Instruction--a free, open, online site for curricula that integrates assessments, in conjunction with Illuminate Education and ShowEvidence, to allow students to progress at their own pace in one, integrated space.
New Designs for School

Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Schools

Find out how NGLC breakthrough schools adopt the design principle of Self-Pacing and Mastery-Based Credit so students move at their own optimal pace and receive credit when they demonstrate mastery.
Why Schools Need to Change

Relevance: the Most Important Word in Education?

All students really need to learn something is access and community. The role of the teacher, then, is to plant the seed of inquiry and facilitate.
New Designs for School

Developing a High EQ: How NGLC Schools Promote Social-Emotional Learning

Empowering students to direct their own learning is a priority in nearly all NGLC breakthrough schools.
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. 
Technology Tools

Common Core State Standards Alignment for Algebra for the 21st Century

“LVS-A21” Developed Activities Aligned to CCSS 

Unit 3: Descriptive Statistics 
Building Community

It’s a Small, Small World

Great educational innovation is happening across the globe. We all know that. But sometimes it rises up and kind of smacks you across the face – in a good way.