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New Designs for School

Chicago Schools Are Rethinking K-12 Staffing and Scheduling

Breakthrough Schools: Chicago offered school teams a workshop on extending the reach of great teachers and reimagining schedules to generate better, deeper, and different learning.
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The Teacher’s Role in Personalized Learning: Making Math Relevant

Math lessons rarely focus on real-life connections. Performance-based tasks help students understand how math exists in their world.
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Choice, Trust, and Agency in Pinellas County Schools

In the district's transition to personalized learning, educators are focused on school culture with trust in students at the top of the list.
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Building Student Agency into Learning Pathways, a Student's View

A high school student offers his view of his school district's transition to learner-centered education: "I was in charge of my future."
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Choosing the right scaling strategy for your school model

One of the criteria NGLC uses in selecting potential launch (and to a somewhat lesser extent planning) grantees is scalability.
Enabling Change

Choosing Your Degree Pathway

Ramapo College junior Stephen Geerlof shares his views on student involvement when colleges make decisions that affect all members of its community.
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Closing the Credential Gap: Higher Education’s Accessibility Makeover

​Some 36 million Americans have earned college credit, but no degree. A new approach to higher ed seeks to change that.​
Professional Learning

Coaching: A New Frame for Teaching and Learning

When you mashup coaching, next gen learning, professional learning, agency and mindsets, you get a framework for adopting personalized learning in both K-12 and higher ed.
New Designs for School

Coaching for Student Success: What Does that Really Mean?

What does coaching actually mean, and how does it work in the classroom?
Why Schools Need to Change

Moving Beyond the All-or-Nothing Paradigm for Higher Education

Those with some college but no degree are often in a worse position than before they started. Microcredentials can help.