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New Designs for School

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
Reimagining Assessment

Straight A’s Don’t Tell the Whole Story: In Support of K-12 Microcredentials

San Diego educators flip the script on college readiness with a K-12/university badging partnership​, providing legitimate signposts to students’ true skills.
Building Community

Educators Are Artists, Let's Act Like It!

The work of next generation learning in Colorado Springs School District 11 has some striking similarities to group painting excursions.
Enabling Change

Three Steps Toward Building Vista Unified's Three Brushstrokes

In 3 years, 100% of Vista Unified School District schools are transforming to Personal Learning pathways for all students. These 3 steps made it possible.
Reimagining Assessment

Assessment as an On-Ramp for Agency and Personalization

When reflection, relevance, and choice become core design principles for assessment, they are powerful on-ramps to student agency and personalized learning.
Why Schools Need to Change

Mindsets and the New Brain Science

Success doesn’t bring happiness. Happiness brings success and it’s possible for schools to foster optimism and social support and help students manage stress.
Why Schools Need to Change

On Becoming Mindful in the Classroom

Teachers using Generation Schools Network’s mindfulness training and curriculum like that it helps students focus on the task at hand, and they appreciate its strong research base.
Professional Learning

Reimagining Professional Learning for Educators

Teachers in breakthrough models schools are experiencing a new approach to professional development.
Why Schools Need to Change

Greatest Threat to Competency Based Learning Part II

Accountability systems, for the most part, do not reward meeting every student where they are and progressing them based on mastery. They should.
Technology Tools

VR & AR: Driving a Revolution in Medical Education & Patient Care

Researchers, doctors, nurse educators are discovering innovative ways to leverage immersive technologies to transform healthcare teaching and practice.