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Reimagining Assessment

Cultivating Peer-to-Peer Feedback

Friday Focus Practitioner’s Guide to Next Gen Learning: Find ways to help students & adults strengthen their peer-to-peer feedback chops, a necessary skill for all learners.
Professional Learning

10 Lessons Learned from an Award-Winning Digital Badging Program

Whether you are exploring digital badging or getting ready to launch your own initiative, these ten lessons will help you gain a better understanding of this emerging field.
Designing for Equity

Designing Schools that Generate Real Value for Vulnerable Students, Part 1

Chris Sturgis of MetisNet walks through the first two of five missteps educators take when designing blended, personalized, proficiency-based schools, with advice for what to do differently.
Designing for Equity

Designing Schools that Generate Real Value for Vulnerable Students, Part 2

Three additional missteps educators take when designing blended, personalized, proficiency-based schools, with advice for what to do differently.
Building Community

The Inside Story: NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools

The inside scoop about the 49 next gen schools that have been selected by the six NGLC Regional Fund partners to join the current national cohort of NGLC schools.
New Designs for School

Lessons from The Voice: Fitting-Out is the New Fitting-In

​The big take away is that “fitting out” is the new “fitting in.” School designers and system reformers take note: it may be time for us to embrace this difference making truth.​
Designing for Equity

Next Gen Learning: An Experiment on Other People’s Children?

Holly Morris and Kristen Vogt share their personal take on next gen learning and equity by thinking deeply about what kind of school they want for their own children.
Designing for Equity

Nurturing Seeds of Equity in Next Generation School Design

As CityBridge Foundation nurtures the local ecosystem for education in Washington, D.C., Margaret Angell and Caroline Hill are asking, “How might we design for equity?”​​​
Designing for Equity

Rethinking the achievement gap (Part 1)

From a learning standpoint, the narrow understanding of equity driven by a focus on the achievement gap has been terrible.
Enabling Change

The Cost of Personalized Learning? Six Figures, Then Status Quo

EdWeek, February 2018