Search Results

New Designs for School

Summit Public Schools: Summit Denali

The model of Summit Denali, a 6-12 charter school in the Bay Area of California that opened in 2013, flipped the traditional school model, placing students at the center and allowing them to self-direct and drive their own learning. The school day includes personalized learning time, project time, mentor time, reading time, and community time. Students, teachers, and parents navigate through the learning using the Personalized Learning Plan dashboard.
New Designs for School

Virtual Learning Academy Charter School: VLACS Aspire

VLACS, a virtual school serving students across New Hampshire in grades 5-12, is developing a 100 percent self-paced, competency-based learning model framed not around courses but around a map of required competencies that students may master through any number of possible learning opportunities.In the VLACS Aspire “experiential blended learning” model, learning experiences in real-world, community-based settings serve as the face-to-face component in addition to traditional classroom-based learning that is integrated with online learning opportunities.
New Designs for School

Cornerstone Charter Schools: Cornerstone Health + Technology High School

This health-focused high school model sheds traditional classrooms, grade levels, and schedules in favor of personalized online content, small-group work, a continuum of mastery from beginner to professional, and comprehensive student support. Rethinking the instructional and support staff, Cornerstone Charter Health utilizes Relationship Managers, Relevance Managers, Rigor Managers, and Success Coaches to provide ongoing support and guidance as students navigate through their learning.
New Designs for School

Da Vinci Schools: Da Vinci Communications

This charter high school in Hawthorne CA which opened in Fall 2013 serves racially and socio-economically diverse students in Los Angeles through a highly personalized, student-centered approach that incorporates a flipped classroom, project-based learning, and student-driven individual learning plans. Collaborative teams help develop real world projects that bring professional practice into the classroom. Through a partnership with local colleges, students have the chance to earn college credit while in high school.
New Designs for School

KIPP Bay Area Schools: KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory

A new charter school, KIPP SF College Prep is the first KIPP high school in the nation to adopt blended learning. Aiming to serve as a model for financially sustainable, personalized learning for students of color and students from low-income families, the school prioritizes student-centered, self-paced learning and the teacher role shifts to a coach that guides students through a variety of learning experiences.
New Designs for School

Profile: USC Hybrid High School

The goal of USC Hybrid High is to develop self-motivated and disciplined learners who are prepared to thrive at and graduate from top four-year universities, who will go on to use their college degrees to effect positive multigenerational change. Therefore, the school emphasizes a deep sense of purpose, mastery-based personalization, and developing the mindsets to thrive in college.
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Schools Colorado

Six schools in three districts redesigning for personalized learning (planning)

Grantee
Enabling Change

PRESS RELEASE: Six Colorado Schools Redesign the Future of Student Learning

Denver, CO – Three Colorado school districts are on the cutting edge of redesigning the classroom of the future — better preparing students for success in the classroom, college and the workforce.
Professional Learning

K-12 Roundup of Tools and Resources: Distributed Leadership

Teacher leadership has a wide and positive impact on students in schools that deeply value and build systems of shared, distributed leadership.
New Designs for School

Exceptional Ideas and Practical Solutions for Next Gen Learning in K-12 Schools

Reimagining how students learn involves tackling a multidimensional challenge head-on. Here's how 13 schools across the country are doing just that.