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Reimagining Assessment

Rethinking the achievement gap (Part 2)

How we define achievement impacts the way we see gaps between poor children of color and their more advantaged peers. Is there a critical thinking gap?
Technology Tools

Behind the Scenes of the 2016 Higher Ed NMC Horizon Report

A window into the expert panel conversations that fueled the research presented in the NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition.
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.
Designing for Equity

Rethinking the Achievement Gap (Part 3)

For those of us committed to educating disadvantaged kids, the skill set we need to help them develop goes way beyond reading and math: we need to teach them how to navigate and negotiate a world that is hostile to their very existence.
New Designs for School

A GPS for Breakthrough Model Design: Mapping Your Next Gen School with Intrinsic Schools and Piedmont School District as Guides

This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and 2Revolutions is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use as a guide for decision-making in the design and launch of a next generation learning school. By tracing the journeys of two NGLC breakthrough model schools—Piedmont School District and Intrinsic Schools—this toolkit helps educators brainstorm, rally a diverse team of people, create a vision for school design, and explore the details behind specific components of a school’s model.
New Designs for School

Experts Weigh in on Competency-Based Education

Competency-based approaches to learning—where learning becomes stretched by pace and path—are a game-changer for schools focused on deeper learning outcomes.
New Designs for School

A New Tool for Mapping Your Next Gen School

A new tool tracing the journey of two schools from (re)design to launch can help educators on their own journey to next generation learning.
New Designs for School

Competency-based Learning at Building 21

The competency-based education model behind this Philadelphia district partnership school is gaining attention for its competency framework and information dashboard.
Professional Learning

Getting Better at...Getting Better in Education

​Every educator is committed to getting better. Period. Improvement science is a way for educators to craft interventions to solve their own problems of practice.​​
Enabling Change

Down the Rabbit Hole? 3 Key Takeaways for Higher Ed Business Models

To build successful higher ed business models, leaders should focus on these three takeaways.