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Professional Learning

A Year in the Making: The Fourth Lesson My New Year's Resolution Taught Me about Next Gen Learning

When the environment and logistics don't support learning, it's hard to enjoy a learning experience. Even if it's a maker learning experience.
New Designs for School

Calling for a ‘Soup to Nuts’ Approach to Competency-Based Education

Is there a better approach to developing Competency-Based Education programs than the 'DIY' path many colleges and universities take?
Why Schools Need to Change

Catch-66 of School Reform

Andy Calkins looks at the difficult dance of coordinating three aspects of education reform: new kinds of practice, new kinds of products, new kinds of policies.
New Designs for School

Celebrating XQ Super Schools with NGLC Roots: Brooklyn LAB

Learn about the history of innovation behind $10M XQ Super School winner, Brooklyn LAB.
Reimagining Assessment

Working to Broaden the Definition of Success with MyWays

Despite research revealing the importance of deeper learning we still place disproportionate efforts and emphasis on discrete skill development. Why?
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.
Technology Tools

Confessions of an EdTech Company: Learning to Learn

​Old computers or new tablets are only as powerful as the teachers and students who choose to use them.​
New Designs for School

Design Thinking, NGLC Style

Educators are devising new solutions to the most intractable problems in K-12 and higher ed—and design thinking puts students at the center of the process.
Enabling Change

Flex time: Schools break out of scheduling ruts

Education Dive, February 2018
Building Community

Finding and Telling Your Educator Story of Innovation

Sharing stories of innovation, progress, even failure can be an impactful way for educators to rally the support of their community & inspire others to redesign schools.