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Why Schools Need to Change

Creative Know How for a Novel, Complex World (MyWays Report 8)

This report considers the Creative Know How domain of the MyWays Student Success Framework, including why the domain transforms “21st century skills” into the more agile Creative Know How, key principles for implementation, and the state of play in the field, as well as offering resources and essential one-page primers for each competency. (October 2017, 2.5MB)

Report 8 is the third of five reports in Part B of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part B, “Broader, Deeper Competencies for Student Success,” provides a composite definition of student success in learning, work, and life, drawing on over 25 highly-regarded frameworks and the literature in the education, work, and human development fields. 

The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
Why Schools Need to Change

Content Knowledge for the Life Students Will Lead (MyWays Report 9)

This report considers the Content Knowledge domain of the MyWays Student Success Framework, including why the domain focuses on big understandings and extends into authentic application, key principles for implementation, and the state of play in the field, as well as offering resources and essential one-page primers for each competency. (October 2017, 2MB)

Report 9 is the fourth of five reports in Part B of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part B, “Broader, Deeper Competencies for Student Success,” provides a composite definition of student success in learning, work, and life, drawing on over 25 highly-regarded frameworks and the literature in the education, work, and human development fields. 

The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
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Wayfinding Abilities for Destinations Unknown (MyWays Report 10)

This report considers the Wayfinding Abilities domain of the MyWays Student Success Framework, including why, in an age of accelerations, the domain merits equal standing with the other three domains, key principles for implementation, and the state of play in the field, as well as offering resources and essential one-page primers for each competency. (October 2017, 2.5MB)

Report 10 is the last of five reports in Part B of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part B, “Broader, Deeper Competencies for Student Success,” provides a composite definition of student success in learning, work, and life, drawing on over 25 highly-regarded frameworks and the literature in the education, work, and human development fields. 

The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
New Designs for School

Learning Design for Broader, Deeper Competencies (MyWays Report 11)

This report shares an overview of learner-centered paradigms, focuses on the growing importance of authenticity, and introduces three MyWays learning design constructs that support the broader, deeper competencies — Whole Learning, Wider Learning Ecosystem, and Levers for Capability and Agency. The report also offers resources to support initial moves toward implementation. (October 2017, 5MB)

Report 11 is the first of two reports in Part C of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part C, “Redesigning the Learning Experience for the MyWays Competencies,” explores how to bring the broader and deeper competencies of the MyWays Student Success Framework into educational practice, focusing on key constructs for learning design and assessment design.

The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
Reimagining Assessment

Assessment Design for Broader, Deeper Competencies (MyWays Report 12)

This report presents the evolution toward greater authenticity and multiple measures, and recommends the use of Five Assessment Strategies: Formative assessment, Performance assessment, Multiple measures, Badges & micro-credentials, and Quality reviews. The report also surveys the emerging state of assessment within each of the MyWays domains, as well as offering resources to support initial moves toward implementation. (October 2017, 4MB)

Report 12 is the second of two reports in Part C of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part C, “Redesigning the Learning Experience for the MyWays Competencies,” explores how to bring the broader and deeper competencies of the MyWays Student Success Framework into educational practice, focusing on key constructs for learning design and assessment design. 

The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
Designing for Equity

Curriculum, Defaults, and Equity

​Schools across the country have an equity problem: vastly different engagement from students in tasks with varying degrees of challenge in nearly every U.S. town.
Why Schools Need to Change

Introduction and Overview of the MyWays Student Success Series

This report describes the initiative to create a composite definition of student success in learning, work, and life, drawing on over 25 highly-regarded frameworks and the literature in the education, work, and human development fields. In addition, the project’s four “through-line” questions are described: WHY do students need broader, deeper competencies today? WHAT specific competencies are important to empower their success? HOW can students develop these competencies and HOW can we gauge their progress? (October 2017, 3MB)

The MyWays Student Success Series examines this through-line of questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
Why Schools Need to Change

Visual Summary of the MyWays Student Success Series

A different kind of Executive Summary. This report uses selected images from the MyWays Student Success Series to share key insights about the major trends and concepts impacting young people today; the broader, deeper competencies they need to succeed; and the learning design and assessment design approaches necessary to develop those competencies. (October 2017, 7.5MB) 

The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
Why Schools Need to Change

Opportunity, Work, and the Wayfinding Decade (MyWays Report 1)

This report traces the growing opportunity gap in this country and examines employment challenges and labor market shifts that have transformed the journey from high school to gainful employment into a highly complex and risky wayfinding decade for today’s youth; it concludes with four key takeaways for next generation educators. (October 2017, 4MB)

Report 1 is the first of five reports in Part A of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part A, “Adolescence in an Age of Accelerations,” analyzes the real-world changes and conditions that are most acutely impacting young people and outlines key developmental tasks of the adolescent years.

The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org
Technology Tools

The Conversion of a Skeptic: My Journey into Online Teaching, Part 1

Student demand for online learning led to some transformational changes by a faculty member and self-professed skeptic of asynchronous teaching.