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Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays: The Three Steps Needed to Achieve the Big Leap into Next Gen Learning

Tools to analyze and re-imagine the foundation of your K-12 education model: your definition of student success.
New Designs for School

MyWays #2: Learning Design as Rich as Your Definition of Student Success

Tools to appraise and re-imagine one of your school model’s foundational elements: your learning design and the organization of your school.
Reimagining Assessment

MyWays #3: Assessment Design as Integrated as Your Definition of Student Success

Tools to appraise one of your school model’s most crucial design elements: your design for assessment.
New Designs for School

How Blended Learning Can Support Student Agency

Blended learning puts students in the driver’s seat of learning by increasing their voice, choice, and motivation.
Enabling Change

The Foundations of Next Generation Learning - Essential Resources

NGLC’s Sarah Luchs describes the field base and results of the school models in the NGLC network, particularly the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools.
New Designs for School

The Fallacy that CBE Students Don’t Learn

​Beyond questioning what students are learning, there are those who suggest that the learning is somehow lesser in CBE programs than what occurs in a traditional model. It simply isn't true.​
New Designs for School

School Design Blueprint: ASCEND

The School Design Blueprint is a design document that outlines the school’s plan for transforming its current school model to one that better serves the unique needs of every student. The blueprint is structured to answer four main design questions:

  1. What is our theory of action for solving our greatest systemic challenges?
  2. What will the future student experience look like when we succeed?
  3. What will we implement next year that gets us closer to our long-term vision?
  4. How will we continuously roll out new features of our model and engage stakeholders in the work over time?
New Designs for School

School Design Blueprint: Lodestar

The School Design Blueprint is a design document that outlines the school’s plan for transforming its current school model to one that better serves the unique needs of every student. The blueprint is structured to answer four main design questions:

  1. What is our theory of action for solving our greatest systemic challenges?
  2. What will the future student experience look like when we succeed?
  3. What will we implement next year that gets us closer to our long-term vision?
  4. How will we continuously roll out new features of our model and engage stakeholders in the work over time?
New Designs for School

How Competency-based Learning Can Support Student Agency

When students design their own pathway, are free to fail/free to learn, and demonstrate mastery through self-directed assessment, student agency thrives.
Enabling Change

5 Strategies to Implement Successful University-Wide Student Success Initiatives

What creates change with big results? Check out these critical strategies from Middle Tennessee State's student success efforts.