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What's All the Buzz About Detroit?

Education in Detroit is coming out of the tailspin. There are some very good schools serving high need populations and it rivals the Bay Area for innovations in blended learning.​
Why Schools Need to Change

Why Schools Need to Change. Really.

Trends in employment, learning, and opportunity call for substantial changes in schooling. What can educators do?
Enabling Change

Why Schools Shouldn’t Go It Alone on Personalized Learning

The role of outside prodder and questioner is proving to be an important element of successful school-wide personalized learning implementation.
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Xtreme Innovation

NGLC's latest “re-invention” challenge to secondary and postsecondary educators and innovators pushes the needle on fundamentally rethinking education itself.
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School’s Out for the Summer! Revisiting the Hypotheses Behind Next Gen Learning

As we wrap up this academic year, it’s a good time to reflect on the hypotheses behind next gen learning, so I asked several of our leading school innovators to answer two questions. Their answers might surprise you.
Enabling Change

Personalized Learning Can’t Ignore School Leaders

It’s time to add supports for principals who are leading the change to personalized learning in their schools.
Enabling Change

Technology’s Unmet Progressive Promise

Personalized learning schools interested in progressive teaching should ask themselves how they could use technology to support deeper, meaningful learning in ways that go beyond using tech for drill-and-skill learning.
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Student Voice

The theory, evidence and practice of student voice, an essential component of personalizing learning and ensuring that students exercise their agency.
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Top 6 Themes of the “Friday Focus” Practitioner’s Guide to Next Gen Learning

The insights, surprises, challenges, collective hardships, and joys of next gen learning practice this year will shape how innovation in K-12 continues in the years to come.
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Building 21’s Competency Design and Dashboard

Find out how “Passion + Agency = Impact” within Building 21’s competency-based learning framework.