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Professional Learning

How Do We Make Maker Educators?

Many educators don't identify as makers, but they should. Here's why, with a few simple strategies to help teachers adopt a maker mindset.
Professional Learning

The Maker Fellow Program: Oakland educators build a table, rethink learning in school

A maker mindset can’t be developed through lectures or course materials. This program found inspiration in the most ordinary of objects: a table.
Building Community

Innovation & Finance: Lessons from Afton’s Work with NGLC Grant Program

Afton Partners is evolving its definition of sustainability and scalability based on outcomes of their work with NGLC schools.
New Designs for School

Want Real Ed Reform? 5 Ways Students Should Be Included

If we are serious about providing each & every student a truly transformational 21st century education, we need to ask our students what they think should be done.
Designing for Equity

Equipping All Students to Be Successful, Responsible, Informed Citizens

Mary Chan’s insights into the next gen learning model through firsthand experience as a high school science teacher and UCLA college pathway coach at Da Vinci X.
Building Community

A Distribution Challenge: Scaling Charter School Innovation and Impact to States and Districts

Matchbook Learning looks to the "Microsoft model" to distribute and scale innovations in education.
Enabling Change

The Foundations of Next Generation Learning - Essential Resources

NGLC’s Sarah Luchs describes the field base and results of the school models in the NGLC network, particularly the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools.
Designing for Equity

How Competency Education Drives Equity

Some believe variation in pacing will mean some students get left behind. But in time-based environments, gaps already exist & only grow over time.
Technology Tools

Increasing Teacher Engagement: Digital Resources for Algebraic Reasoning (Part 1)

Deborah Ives describes how Get the Math relates algebraic reasoning to the real world and how teachers can integrate the digital resource into their curriculum.
Professional Learning

New Opportunity for Massachusetts Secondary Educators to Learn, Network, and Be Inspired

Learning-focused school visits aim to generate interest and capacity in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to create excellent high school models.