Next Gen Learning in Action
This blog offered perspectives from educators engaged in redesigning the future of public schools. This blog is no longer being updated.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Seeing is Believing Tour, Part II
Earlier this year, Mountain View High School hosted the eighth stop of Thompson School District's 'Seeing is Believing' tour, which affords district staff and district partners an opportunity to see how schools are adapting under the district's push to personalize learning.
School & District Management
Opinion
Men of Character: The Vertus Preceptors
For this edition of Friday Focus: Practitioner's Guide to Next Gen Learning, I spoke to Leigh, the CEO and co-founder, and James Daniels, the Lead Preceptor, at Vertus, an NGLC school in Rochester, NY,
Student Achievement
Opinion
How Performance-Based Assessments Designed by Student Interns Promote Interest-Based Skill Development
Rich and transformative learning experiences happen at home, in the community, and in workplaces. Here's how educators in one school are leveraging ePortfolios and digital badges to promote relevant skill development for student's coursework and future professional lives.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Cultivating a Positive Adult Culture: Find Ways to Say Yes
At the core of personalized learning is a rich adult culture that enables and encourages educators to study existing shortcomings in our schools and classrooms, and to collaboratively and passionately find innovative solutions.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Providing Agency for Our Most Challenging Students
Teachers can employ Collaborative Problem Solving to empower students with persistently challenging behaviors to change; in this two-part series, we'll learn more from educators at the elementary and middle school levels.
Professional Development
Opinion
Providing Agency for Our Most Challenging Students
Teachers can employ Collaborative Problem Solving to empower students with persistently challenging behaviors to change; in this two-part series, we'll learn more from educators at the elementary and middle school levels.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Scale: What Have You Done for Me Lately?
In education, we need to rethink scale and move beyond numbers in order to achieve profound and lasting change.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Listening to Student Voices: The Sound of Assessment for Learning
What would it look like if student voice truly shaped the design of public education systems? Reflections culled from the Assessment for Learning Project (ALP) community offer some helpful insights.
School & District Management
Opinion
iCERP: Building a Research/Practice Partnership
Brain scientists and teachers are breaking the mold of traditional education with new technologies that enable formative feedback on students' learning successes and challenges.
Professional Development
Opinion
25 Behaviors That Support Strong Network Culture
How do educators connect with each other? These 25 day-to-day actions shape the culture of learning networks and the value they create.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Structure Helps Promote Student Agency
For flex time to work well, schools have to accomplish a tricky balance between fostering autonomy in students while still holding them accountable for ambitious learning targets.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Seeing Is Believing Tour
Earlier this year, Bill Reed Middle School hosted the seventh stop of Thompson School District's 'Seeing is Believing' tour, which affords district staff and district partners an opportunity to see how schools are adapting under the district's push to personalize learning.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Students as Users, Designers, and Co-creators of Learning
This edition of Friday Focus: Practitioner's Guide to Next Gen Learning takes another look at the School Design Institutes (SDIs) that were featured in a story earlier this month.
School & District Management
Opinion
Innovation in Real-Time - Part II
Inspired to redesign learning experiences, leaders and educators share their perspectives on approaching innovation--and failing forward--following several revelatory training and brainstorming sessions.