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Blended Learning Model Types of NGLC Breakthrough Schools

Next gen schools are incorporating blended learning models in order to personalize learning for students. But their choice of how to blend face-to-face and online learning depends on their mission, culture, and learning philosophy.
Technology Tools

Next Gen Tools: EAA's "Buzz"

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on Buzz, a K-12 personalized learning platform used in Education Achievement Authority of Michigan's schools. Buzz was developed in partnership between EAA, Agilix, and School Improvement Network. Buzz facilitates the delivery of core content and assessments to students, allows students to advance at an individualized pace, and provides data to inform teachers' instructional strategies. The brief includes an artifact of screenshots and a student tour of the platform.
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KIPP Chicago: KIPP Create College Prep Middle School

This Chicago middle school serving grades 5-8 builds on the KIPP academic model by blending instructional technology with high-quality teaching methods. The technology is a tool that allows a single instructor and a single classroom to serve the individual needs of a diverse student body. In "Power Hour" housed within a flexible Learning Lab space, students use videos, tutorials, and interactive content to practice key competencies on their own and in teams based on an individual learning plan.
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Summit Public Schools: Summit Denali

The model of Summit Denali, a 6-12 charter school in the Bay Area of California that opened in 2013, flipped the traditional school model, placing students at the center and allowing them to self-direct and drive their own learning. The school day includes personalized learning time, project time, mentor time, reading time, and community time. Students, teachers, and parents navigate through the learning using the Personalized Learning Plan dashboard.
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Design Tech High School: d.tech

A Bay Area charter high school, d.tech develops "innovation-ready" students by combining content knowledge with the design thinking process while fostering a sense of autonomy and purpose. The academic model is grounded in self-paced learning through a flex schedule, high standards, and design thinking through a four-year design advisory.
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Match Education

Blending personalized online and tutoring-based learning

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An Educator’s Guide to Learner Profiles for Students

As more educators work to replace factory-model schools with personalized, student-centered learning experiences, knowing students has taken on new meaning.
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PRESS RELEASE: NGLC Announces 7.2 Million in Grants to Help Launch 16 Personalized, Competency-Based Schools

$450,000 grants support new schools or redesigns in 10 states, to open this fall
Professional Learning

We See and Believe in Thompson School District

Discover the "Seeing is Believing Tour" at Thompson School District in Loveland, CO, what these educators call the best professional learning they have seen.
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What if Students Made a School?

What would happen if we trusted students to design their schools?