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New Designs for School

My Students Aren't Lazy but Labeling Them Lazy Is

Blended self-paced learning models can create time for teachers to move beyond shortcut labels to get to know students and their true potential for learning.
Why Schools Need to Change

Incorporating Leadership Skills into a Student-Centered Classroom

Teachers can use student-centered practices to model leadership and help students develop leadership skills themselves.
New Designs for School

How to Teach Students Who Aren’t There

When chronically absent students do make it to school, they often feel lost and frustrated and behind. Self-paced, mastery-based learning can help them learn, and it can keep the rest of the class moving forward too.
Enabling Change

5 Solutions to the Biggest Obstacles in Transforming Public Schools

Transforming a district to be future ready is not about raising test scores, it's about rewriting the playbook. See 5 obstacles and solutions for rethinking education.
Designing for Equity

Supporting Multilingual Learners in 2025 and Beyond: Finding the Balance between Rigor and Support

A rapidly changing student population has challenged educators in this middle school to collaborate to provide rigorous, meaningful next gen learning opportunities for all students, including multilingual learners.
Professional Learning

The application is now open for New England high schools to visit innovative schools serving multilingual learners this fall

Apply by 8/15/2025 to explore innovative learning designed for multilingual learners and work on promising ideas to better serve MLLs in your high school.
New Designs for School

New Designs for School

Educators are combining the best of what we know about purposeful, authentic learning with bold ideas about student success to completely reimagine schools.
New Designs for School

Resources

Next gen learning makes it possible for educators who want to improve learning for all of their students to move past “teaching to the middle” and “teaching to the test.” The shift requires different mindsets, practices, and tools. Scroll down to search an ever-expanding harvest of resources from peers who are making the shift to learner-centered practices.
Building Community

Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools

The NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools accelerates innovative school redesign at the local level. In 2014, six Regional Funds partner organizations were selected through a competitive application process. A seventh partner was added in 2016.

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New Designs for School

Breakthrough Schools: Chicago

A multi-year, citywide initiative led by LEAP Innovations to cultivate the next generation of school models in Chicago through support programs and funding mechanisms.

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