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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

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.
New Designs for School

Next Gen Tools: e3 Civic High School Facility

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on the facility infrastructure of e3 Civic High School--a flexible, open, 21st century space that supports the school's personalized and project-based curriculum.
New Designs for School

A GPS for Breakthrough Model Design: Mapping Your Next Gen School with Intrinsic Schools and Piedmont School District as Guides

This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and 2Revolutions is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use as a guide for decision-making in the design and launch of a next generation learning school. By tracing the journeys of two NGLC breakthrough model schools—Piedmont School District and Intrinsic Schools—this toolkit helps educators brainstorm, rally a diverse team of people, create a vision for school design, and explore the details behind specific components of a school’s model.
New Designs for School

RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning

This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use in the very early stages of conceptualizing and designing a next generation learning program, initiative, or whole school. Rather than offering a prescriptive model to follow, the toolkit helps educators figure out their own goals in blended, personalized, competency-based learning and the pathway to change that best fits their community and students. It organizes the most helpful publications, websites, and tools available today around four key issues: understanding next generation learning models; planning for and managing change; designing next generation learning opportunities; and engaging the planning team and stakeholders in the process. Because few practitioner-created tools exist in this emerging field, the toolkit highlights the essential questions to ask throughout the planning and design process as well as the communities of experts, practitioners, and learners to connect with and learn from.
Reimagining Assessment

Measures That Matter Most: Research Report

NGLC asked the educators it supports how they go about measuring the success of their innovative school designs. This is their story.
New Designs for School

Informing Progress: Insights on Personalized Learning Implementation and Effects

This research report examines student outcomes & school practices in NGLC-funded schools.
New Designs for School

Reimagining Space, Time & Staffing

This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and 2Revolutions is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use as a guide for reimagining the fundamental structures of their schools to propel students’ learning, not halt it. It includes top tips, strategies, and resources to dive further into the use of space, time, and staffing.
New Designs for School

Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning

A study of 62 personalized learning schools, including NGLC schools, show student achievement gains in math & ELA. The report also details practices used in schools.
Reimagining Assessment

XQ Expert Series: Measuring Progress Toward College and Career Readiness

NGLC's Andy Calkins joins Karen Pittman & Antonia Rudenstine in this podcast hosted by Michele Cahill.