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Why Schools Need to Change

Welcome to the Sandbox

Colleges and universities remain unchanged, not because they are unaware of a changing academic terrain or lack of desire, but because they are incapable of innovations that deviate from how they do it today.
New Designs for School

Vista Unified Sets Sights on Personal Learning 2.0: Powerful Performance Frameworks

When over 50% of its schools opted to actively engage in the "Personal Learning Challenge," Vista Unified began transforming how the district itself operated.
Professional Learning

Training Teachers for Competency-Based Learning Classrooms

Matchbook Learning has learned that training teachers on competency-based models requires three design principles: form, motivation, evidence.
Professional Learning

Top 10 Blogs about K-12 Next Gen Learning

As the newest member of the NGLC K-12 team, I wondered which blogs our grantees and staff considered the best blogs about next gen learning…these blogs topped the list.
Professional Learning

Teacher PD: The Achilles Heel of Personalized, Next Gen Learning

If the teachers aren’t experiencing next gen learning… their students sure won’t, either. Clear enough. It’s time to make it happen, for all of the nation’s teachers on behalf of the learners they serve.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Do’s and Don’ts of Reimagining Middle School

Lovett Elementary in Chicago is reimagining school and it's working. Reading and math scores have grown. Find out how.
Technology Tools

6 Implications of the Next-Generation Digital Learning Environments (NGDLE) Framework

In the year since EDUCAUSE published a report on the NGDLE, there is growing support within the higher ed teaching and learning community for learning environments to be based on component architecture. Here are six implications of that approach.
Enabling Change

7 Things to Know About Leading Academic Transformation

Higher ed continues to be under great pressure to change, especially with respect to teaching and learning. This pressure presents itself in two ways: the degree of change and the tempo of change. Higher education is inexperienced with both, which means that cultural issues are sure to be part of any exercise in academic transformation.
New Designs for School

Sweet Emotion for Next Gen Learning Environments

9 cognitive psychology tips for educators to ensure that happy, sad, mad, and glad get to work for you and your students.
Professional Learning

Micro-credentials: Radical Personalization of Professional Development

The driving question for a pilot micro-credential program: What impact can micro-credentials have on professional learning in Rhode Island?