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New Designs for School

Picking the Perfect Problem: The Heart of Project-Based Learning

Getting the three central criteria right—​the curriculum, the students, and the context—​leads to the perfect project for project-based learning.​
Building Community

Scaling Personalized Learning: Questions of Equity and the Role of Micro-Credentials

Scaling personalized learning to benefit more students in more schools doesn’t happen by adopting a school model like a recipe. Personalized learning often scales best by invitation.
New Designs for School

Solving Problems with Design Thinking

Design thinking can be used with students and educators as a launching pad for asking good questions, getting to the root of problems, and building creative solutions.
New Designs for School

How Self-Directed Field Studies Can Build Future Leaders

In Montessori Self-Directed Field Studies, elementary-age students "go out" in small groups for research, gaining experiences outside the classroom.
Enabling Change

Relationships are Behind All Good Learning

Read this sample of keynote speakers, presenters, and colleague discussions about relationships in next gen, personalized learning at the iNACOL Symposium.
Enabling Change

Mighty in Presence: The Teacher Innovator at Work

Teacher Christina Classen in Colorado Springs is a champion for innovation​ at her school.
Why Schools Need to Change

What Would Socrates Wonder about Next Gen Learning?

What would Socrates, one of history’s most iconic gadflys, wonder about next generation learning? What questions or provocations or iconoclastic statements would he pose to those of us pushing for “next gen” or personalized learning?
New Designs for School

What’s New About Next Gen Learning?

Isn’t ‘Next Gen’ or ‘personalized’ learning simply a new label on an old concept?
New Designs for School

What if Students Made a School?

What would happen if we trusted students to design their schools?
New Designs for School

A Trip to the Windy City and Intrinsic Schools

Intrinsic Schools experienced two drastic changes between its first and second years: moving to a new-construction building and placing an intentional focus on culture.