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Next Gen Tools: Matchbook Learning's "Spark"

Spark is a data integration tool created to support Matchbook Learning's student-centered, mastery-based, blended learning model. It analyzes student achievement daily based on multiple points of data from various online resources and assessment providers. It provides teachers with a one-stop view of a student's proficiency to help teachers strategically group students for future learning opportunities.
Building Community

Education Innovation Clusters: Help is on the way!

How do you motivate people with mutual interest in education innovation but divergent missions and incentives to work together when the exact benefits of doing so are unknown?
Technology Tools

The Secret to Defeating the Status Quo in Education? Engage Faculty

Early engagement of faculty combined with ongoing training and resources is vital to the successful adoption of student success innovations.
Enabling Change

Marketing Non-Traditional Programs in K-12 and Higher Ed

Scanning the K-20 education landscape, we offer insights on marketing non-traditional programs.​
Technology Tools

Student as Designer: Making EdTech that Increases Student Success

How can undergraduate student involvement lead to wider tech adoption and better academic outcomes?
Reimagining Assessment

Preparing Students for Competency-Based Hiring

Transcripts have historically been the official record for what a student has learned in college, but do not provide the details employers need to understand regarding what a student knows and can do on the job.
Building Community

Crowdsourcing Learning in K-12

At last week’s consultancy in New England, NGLC convened 60 educators from across the country, who discussed critical topics in K-12 education and worked to answer big questions from two innovative Maine high schools.
Technology Tools

Launching a New Innovation? Don’t Go It Alone.

Connecting with existing communities—virtual, institution-based, or consortia—is a smart strategy to effectively adopt tech-based student success initiatives.
Professional Learning

Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework

This report includes the key competencies and effective practices of teachers in successful blended learning environments. Twelve key competencies are organized into four domains: mindsets, qualities, adaptive skills, and technical skills. This tool offers insights into the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to make make new instructional methods successful. Emphasis is placed on the mindsets, qualities, and skills that support practitioners’ creative and continuous improvement as well as ability to thrive amidst change. NGLC contributed to the national committee's work.

iNACOL and The Learning Accelerator
New Designs for School

Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning: Inspiring Stories from Next Gen Schools

Narrative report tracing the journey of 11 NGLC schools through the lens of the Personalized Learning School Design Attributes