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Designing for Equity

Putting Agency Back Into Personalized Learning

It would be all too easy for personalized learning to lose its equity edge and devolve into a way to more efficiently sustain existing inequities.
Reimagining Assessment

Rethinking Assessment Requires Rethinking Professional Learning

For students to learn deeply, the educators in their lives must also learn deeply. Rethinking assessment is an opportunity for deeper professional learning.
New Designs for School

Startup Weekend EDU D.C.: Next Gen Schools

At Startup Weekend EDU D.C., innovators are pitching ideas for next generation schools and drawing inspiration from pop-up diners and food trucks.
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.
Technology Tools

Degree-Planning Tools Chart Individual Paths for Student Success

A new generation of higher ed students are designing their own college experience.
Building Community

Coming Together to Envision the Future of Learning

It’s time to move past the existing metaphor—the factory—for learning in schools. Here, next gen educators begin to tell the #NextEdStory.
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.
New Designs for School

Early Wins and Alpha’s Top Ten List for New Blended Operators

The first year of a blended learning school is messy but rewarding. Find out how to set your school up for long-term success.
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.