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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
Enabling Change

Sustaining Innovation & Preparing for Scale: Financial Sustainability Research & Analysis of Personalized Learning School Models

In this report, LEAP Innovations and Afton Partners begin to answer questions of costs, sustainability, and budgets of schools that invest in innovation to create better outcomes for students and build a creative, collaborative, highly skilled workforce in Chicago. They evaluated six school models supported in the NGLC Regional Fund for Breakthrough Schools: Chicago.
Reimagining Assessment

Students as Innovators and Co-Creators at Del Lago Academy

How student voice and choice continue to shape Competency X, Del Lago Academy's innovative approach to assessment through badging.
New Designs for School

Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs in Chicago Shows That Strong Teacher Leaders, Not Technology, Key for Financial Sustainability

The 74 Million, February 2018
New Designs for School

Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning

Hechinger Report, February 2018
Reimagining Assessment

The Virtues and Vices of Portfolio Assessment

A portfolio lends itself naturally to assessment, whose aim is to collect evidence to answer a question about learning or performance.