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Professional Learning

Next Gen Tools: Pre-Service Teacher Learning Collaborative

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the pre-service teacher learning collaborative between Jacksonville State University and Piedmont City Schools through the Collaborative Regional Education (CORE) professional development initiative. Student teachers from Jacksonville State serve as co-teachers, are trained in collaborative pedagogy, and gain experience teaching in a personalized, blended, mastery-based learning environment at Piedmont Middle School.
Professional Learning

A Personalized Learning Approach to Professional Development at Education Achievement Authority

At Michigan's Education Achievement Authority, teachers experience personalized learning with a twist: sometimes, they're the students.
Reimagining Assessment

Measuring Social-Emotional Learning and Habits of Success

Pick up some resources and strategies from Summit Public Schools and other schools that are creating assessments for social-emotional learning.
Professional Learning

Next Gen Tools: EAA Professional Development

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the blended, mastery-based professional development course developed by the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan for teachers in its student-centered learning schools. The goal is to provide the professional development that teachers need to leverage the student-centered learning environment in EAA schools in order to prepare K-12 students for college and career. An artifact includes screenshots of the teacher dashboard and professional development playlist that guides the professional learning experience in the Buzz learning platform.
Technology Tools

How EAA’s Personalized Learning Platform Works

At the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan, an online platform is shifting the way student-centered classes are structured.
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.
New Designs for School

Hey, Princeton: Consider Competencies

With A’s doled out in almost half of all undergraduate courses—compared to only 15 percent in 1961— have grades become meaningless? Shifts in policy to curb grade inflation appear to be answering the wrong question.
New Designs for School

The Road to College & Career

Readying students for college and career has been the focal point of K-12 education reform in recent years, and many new efforts feature technology in a starring role.
Technology Tools

7 Ways to Use Tech to Improve College Student Success

The reality we face in higher education today invites different approaches to promote student success. In this infographic, find out seven ways you can improve the odds using tech.
New Designs for School

10 Lessons Learned from Game Changers and Ground Breakers

These personalized learning pioneers have some powerful advice to give those looking to embark on the journey of education innovation and transformation.