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Building Community

Healing and Re-Humanizing Our Education System

How might we heal our way to a deeper kind of learning and definition of success for each and every student and adult in our educational system?
Building Community

NGLC invites New England teams to apply for the Innovative Schools Virtual Learning Excursion

After one of the most challenging and isolating years in education, NGLC offers mini-grants and a facilitated learning experience for New England high school teams to see next gen learning come alive.
Professional Learning

Transforming Classroom Structures to Increase Student Engagement: A Coach’s Journey toward Modern Classrooms

Recognizing student engagement was a common struggle, a coach and two teachers shifted teaching practice from traditional and passive to modern and active.
Enabling Change

What Happens When Students and Community Members Help Write Your Strategic Plan? The Story of Inclusive Design in Burlington School District

Burlington School District practiced four new habits of working together with a community-based coalition to create and enact a new five-year strategic plan that reflects the needs of and is broadly endorsed by diverse stakeholders.
Professional Learning

Teachers Need to Experience Powerful Learning Too

This excerpt from the recently released book, Sparks Into Fire, is a story of teacher PD that underscores why improving schools will require powerful changes to teacher learning.
Why Schools Need to Change

School Makerspaces Prepare Young People for Career Pathways

School makerspaces can better prepare youth to choose a career pathway by helping to guide their passions and interests through hands-on application.
Enabling Change

Students as Stakeholders and Co-Designers

In many ways, students are seen as primary stakeholders in Vista Unified School District’s work to transform learning for equity and lifelong success.
Enabling Change

Partnering with Families for Learner Success and Wellbeing

Vista Unified helps families through school, one student at a time. They attribute their success to love and care and, simply, relationships above all.
New Designs for School

6 Teacher Practices for Student Engagement, STEM Identity, and Innovation

These 6 teacher practices support 21st-century skills, increase student engagement & inspire innovation. Find out what they look & sound like in any classroom.
Why Schools Need to Change

Mentoring Students through Community Partnerships

Community partners can provide students with guidance and insight, community connection, leadership skills, and more through mentorship programs.