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New Designs for School

Successfully Ever After: Building 21’s Broader Competencies

Many NGLC schools are considering the full scope of their students’ futures—lifelong learning, multiple careers, relationships, and civic engagement.
New Designs for School

How Self-Pacing Improves Students’ Academic Achievement and Self-Confidence

When we as educators require all students to work at a predetermined pace irrespective of their needs, we decide to value speed over mastery.
New Designs for School

Six Ingredients for “A Better Blend”

Is there a direct link between using blended learning to expand access to excellent teachers and improving students’ learning?
New Designs for School

Moving from Passive to Active Learning: Four Ways to Overcome Student Resistance

Asking students to adapt to more complex, self-directed, self-regulated learning often goes against their beliefs about how people learn.
Designing for Equity

Taking K-12 Cultural Responsiveness from Theory into Practice

Can new charter schools provide culturally responsive pedagogy, truly community-driven & serving underserved students? The State of Washington is betting on it.
Professional Learning

A New Paradigm for PD: The Modern Classrooms Project

Teacher professional development is too often disconnected from our actual classrooms. So we tried something new: teacher-designed PD.
Designing for Equity

Children Are Individuals. We all succeed when we see them this way.

Thrive Public Schools uses 4 strategies to prepare students for a constantly changing, colorful, complex world, and the specific needs of San Diego's workforce.
Building Community

How to Create a Math Super Team

The super teachers at Hale Jr High in Tulsa each use their unique skills to create differentiated learning experiences for every student.
New Designs for School

Students Are People Too

Teachers may use 4 pedagogical strategies to meet the needs of students who are the chronically absent, have a learning disability, or are easily bored.
Building Community

Common Planning for Teachers: An Interview with Math Director Don Mundt

Math teachers at Nathan Hale Middle School in Norwalk, Conn., created space for common planning time to share instructional strategies and ask for help.