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Reimagining Assessment

LEAP Innovations: Measuring Personalized Learning

This network of district, charter, and Archdiocese schools is measuring the impact of personalized learning on student achievement using student and teacher survey data, classroom observations, and student achievement measures
New Designs for School

Science Leadership Academy: What Will You Create Today?

The capstone and individualized learning plan projects at SLA allow students to craft a project that reflects their unique interests and goals.
Reimagining Assessment

Presentations of Learning at the Workshop School

Students present Gateway Projects in 10th grade to show they are ready to be promoted to the Upper House, with more time in internships, college classes, and designing their own projects.
Professional Learning

School’s Out for the Summer! Next Gen Educators Share Reflections on Learning

The end of the year is a natural time for educators to pause and reflect, with careful observation, analysis of practice, and experimentation with innovative ideas.
Technology Tools

Degree-Planning Tools Chart Individual Paths for Student Success

A new generation of higher ed students are designing their own college experience.
Technology Tools

Connecting ed & tech: Partnering to drive student outcomes

All too often, the connection between teachers and technology falls flat. Pioneering schools and educators search for technology to support new instructional models, only to find that existing options do not align with their evolving classroom practices. This case study describes how Leadership Public Schools (LPS), a charter school management organization that operates high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Gooru, a nonprofit edtech company, co-developed a technology to support LPS’s personalized learning model and improve student outcomes.
Reimagining Assessment

Constant Learning and Creative Response: Charting the Course in Personalized Learning

Districts and schools must rely on indicators of success throughout the year, or risk losing their way to the end-of-year outcomes they seek.
Building Community

Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools

The NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools accelerates innovative school redesign at the local level. In 2014, six Regional Funds partner organizations were selected through a competitive application process. A seventh partner was added in 2016.

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Reimagining Assessment

5 Ways that Higher Ed Learning Assessment is Changing

You can still find college courses in which the only direct feedback that a student gets comes from exams and papers; yet, if you look closely, you'll find many faculty members who do much more than that, and that number is growing.
Reimagining Assessment

Measuring Success of Innovative School Practices

NGLC & The Learning Accelerator support educators working to bring new ideas to schools and here’s how we will know if those ideas work.