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Why Schools Need to Change

MyWays 5 Zones of the Wider Learning Ecosystem Tool

April 2019

Use this tool from the NGLC MyWays project to reflect on your own personal experiences with real-world learning; to inventory your school's, district's, or network's existing Wider Learning Ecosystem offerings; and to identify potential assets and opportunities aligned to the 5 Zones of the Wider Learning Ecosystem: school-based extracurriculars, college-based learning, career-related learning, community-mediated learning, and everyday informal & formal learning.
Reimagining Assessment

How Can Students and Teachers Co-Design Learning?

When teachers design lessons with students, it pushes student learning and deepens teacher understanding of their students and the learning process.
Why Schools Need to Change

Why Internships Are Critical for Youth of Color

Young people need mentors who understand the challenges people of color face in work environments. Internship mentors provide kind, open spaces to succeed.
Enabling Change

When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools

​The districts in NGLC's change management project have transitioned to home-based learning with rapid design of new systems and communication, propelled by their professional cultures of distributed leadership.​
New Designs for School

Preparing Learners to Navigate a Changing Career Landscape

​This NGLC Practitioner's Guide explores "profession-based learning" with the Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) Network; resources included.
Reimagining Assessment

Assessment, Metaphor, and Hyperobjects: Rethinking #RethinkAssessment

Assessment isn't a thing you can hold in your hand (or in a binder or in one policy). To truly rethink and transform it, we need a new way to understand it.
Enabling Change

This Epiphany Changed These Schools and Districts and the Lives of the Families They Serve. It Could Do the Same for You.

Is your school living your graduate profile among students and adults? The stories of these schools’ response to COVID vividly demonstrate why you should.
Why Schools Need to Change

The Next Gen Learning Community Rises to Embrace Our Second Decade

As NGLC enters its second decade of transforming learning, we invite you to celebrate the innovative educators who are making equitable next gen learning a reality for students!
Enabling Change

Emancipatory Organizational Design: An Alternative to School and District Bureaucracy

Discover the 8 characteristics of an "emancipatory organizational design" for school districts, and move to school systems that create coherence, equity, and powerful learning for students and adults.