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New Designs for School

Financing Personalized Learning: What Can We Learn From First-Generation Adopters?

This paper takes the first systematic look at costs associated with implementing personalized learning schools, how leaders of these schools choose to allocate their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially sustainable on public dollars.
Enabling Change

What Schools Want: How City Leaders Can Help or Hinder Great School Growth

School operators share how city leaders can better support their schools and efforts to grow.
Why Schools Need to Change

A Transformational Vision for Education in the U.S.

A diverse group of educational practitioners, scholars, business people, parents, and advoates came together and create a vision of the future that could unite them.
New Designs for School

Aspire Public Schools: CODE Aspire

This is Aspire Public School’s first K-8 blended learning school in the Achievement School District in Memphis, TN. By combining its California-based College for Certain model with a focus on computer coding, Aspire is offering Memphis students a rich STEM-focused education, individualized learning on technology, and explicit instruction in computer coding skills, so that students will be able to better understand the digital world around them, think logically, be creative, learn to find and fix their own problems, and feel empowered.
New Designs for School

Caliber Schools: Caliber: Beta Academy

Caliber: Beta Academy is reimagining education as we know it, with the belief that the innovations in its model will allow 100% of its students to graduate ready to attend and succeed in a competitive four-year college and beyond. The academic model of the school features personalized learning plans, blended learning for English and math, project-based learning for science and social studies, an integrated social and emotional curriculum, daily writing blocks, and daily computer coding/engineering/robotics courses.
New Designs for School

Education Achievement Authority: Nolan Elementary-Middle School

Charged by the governor of Michigan to transform the lowest five percent of the persistently lowest achieving schools in the state while simultaneously developing a new approach to educating students, the Education Achievement Authority is recreating Nolan Elementary-Middle School in Detroit. Modular furniture and flexible grouping arrangements accommodate a blended learning, student-centered, mastery-progression approach. The dynamic learning platform emphasizes not just cognitive skills but also collaboration and communication.
New Designs for School

Profile: Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity Prep opened serving Pre-School and Kindergarten students in the nation’s capital, with plans to grow up to 8th grade. The school’s model is grounded on the four pillars of more time on task, looping teams of content-specialized teachers, a blended model driven by mission-aligned outcomes, and time explicitly devoted to 21st century civic leadership competencies.
New Designs for School

Profile: Montessori For All - Magnolia Montessori

The founders of Montessori For All, which opened Magnolia Montessori--a PK-8 public charter school in Austin, Texas--created a new school model that blends the best of authentic Montessori schooling (hands-on and self-directed learning) with best practices from high-performing charter schools (basic skills mastery to excel on standardized tests and state assessments) in a blended learning environment. Montessori For All provides students with standards-aligned experiential learning in a racially, culturally, and socio-economically diverse environment.
New Designs for School

Profile: Matchbook Learning

Matchbook Learning has been refining a student-centered, blended, turnaround school model. Students are leveled by what they know and can do, not by age or grade level. Each student progresses through a learning cycle of Learn & Practice, Peer & Teacher Conference, Apply, and Assess. Two schools supported by Matchbook Learning are profiled: Merit Prep in Newark, NJ and Michigan Technical Academy in Detroit.
New Designs for School

Profile: Thrive Public Schools

Thrive Public Schools, a K-8 charter school in San Diego, expands the concept of school beyond core academics to encompass social-emotional intelligence and "real world" understanding. The blended learning model at Thrive integrates technology throughout a curriculum built upon project-based learning, targeted instruction, and tinkering. Students progress at their own pace, are grouped in mixed-age clusters, and loop with the same teacher-teams for two years.