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Building Community

Creating Breakthrough Schools, One Region at a Time

NGLC has a call out for regionally-based partner organizations to become local incubators of next generation learning. The goal is a critical mass of new or redesigned schools that meet the needs of individual students and result in dramatic improvements in student outcomes.
New Designs for School

Competency-Based Education: Faculty Goals and Student Grades

Two insights from the ELI Annual Meeting are helping me think about how to proceed at Western Kentucky University: faculty goals and student grades.​
Technology Tools

Leveraging analytics to study and improve learning

With E2Coach, the University of Michigan is using data and student and faculty feedback to tailor support to students.
New Designs for School

NGLC releases profiles of latest grantees

These one-page snapshots provide a quick overview of each NGLC school/college and their plans for breakthrough change.
Reimagining Assessment

Preparing Students for Competency-Based Hiring

Transcripts have historically been the official record for what a student has learned in college, but do not provide the details employers need to understand regarding what a student knows and can do on the job.
New Designs for School

Putting the "Breakthrough" in Breakthrough Model Schools

Today, NGLC announces eight new recipients of $450,000 breakthrough school model launch grants and 30 recipients of $100,000 planning grants. There's a lot to observe about these varied and enormously promising school designs, but at some level, this is the most important: Each of the 38 applications makes you think, "Ooh! I want my kid to go to THAT school!"
Technology Tools

RioAchieve: Using Technology to Increase Retention & Completion at Scale

As student-to-advisor ratios grow, how can high touch advising and mentoring be sustainable?​
Reimagining Assessment

Should Teachers Share Formative Assessment Results in the Classroom?

Automatically graded assessments can give the student immediate feedback. And can be shared with the entire class. But should teachers share, or not?
Technology Tools

A Shout Out for Learning Technology’s Role in Middle School Student Achievement

Three practices to use Common Core-aligned learning technologies successfully.
Professional Learning

The 2015 Breakthrough Models Academy: Fresh Thinking for Higher Ed

Participants from institutions across the U.S. are focusing on projects to improve college completion, retention, affordability, and competency-based education.