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 This blog is no longer being updated.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
Personalized Learning is (Again) Promising: A Snapshot of Practice & Student Achievement
A new research report from the RAND Corporation suggests greater implementation of personalized learning may relate to more positive effects on achievement, but it's still early days for personalized learning research.
School & District Management
Opinion
School Transformation in Three Broad Brush Strokes: Early, Personal and Relevant!
Early education is one of Vista Unified's three brushstrokes to transform the learning experience. The district is working with community partners to close the achievement gap by Grade 3.
Student Achievement
Opinion
We Need More Empathy -- Why it's Essential that We Craft Diverse and Collaborative Learning Environments
To teach software engineering, Flatiron School designed a pedagogy that supported the development of empathy, self-awareness, humility, and agency.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Fueling the Fire: Training for Leadership at Alpha Public Schools
After years of teamwork, reflection, and dedication to social-emotional learning and student leadership, Alpha Public Schools's Personalized Leadership Training has gone viral.
Education
Opinion
Redesigning Teaching and Learning: It's About Time
Redesigning teaching and learning takes a lot of time; these four strategies leverage time for innovative practice when there isn't more time to be had.
Student Achievement
Opinion
What Do a Dead Guinea Pig and a Lemonade Stand Have to Do With Real Learning?
Lessons from Montessori schools on weaving the development of independence, self-direction and respect into the very fabric of children's public school experience each and every day.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Crafting a Community of Belonging in a Culture of Digital Connection
By leveraging the power of language, educators can turn their diverse and digitally-connected student bodies into meaningful communities of belonging.
Education
Opinion
Fueling the Fire: In Kentucky, an Innovation that Honors the Past
An innovative rural school district is creating a community-based, authentic work experience in which students prepare for the future while honoring their community's past.
Assessment
Opinion
The Greatest Challenge to Scaling Competency-Based Learning
What is the greatest challenge to competency-based learning scaling across America? It's not seat time mandates.
Education
Opinion
An Innovation Conversation in the Nation's Oldest School District
Two educators in Boston Public Schools discuss the challenges of and possible solutions for making the transition to an innovative school model.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Vista Unified Sets Sights on Personal Learning 2.0: Powerful Performance Frameworks
When over 50% of its schools opted to actively engage in the "Personal Learning Challenge," Vista Unified began transforming how the district itself operated.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
What Do Personalized Learning Schools Have in Common?
Just like one size doesn't work for all students, one size doesn't make sense for schools adopting personalized learning either but they do share some common principles.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Defining Personalization: Students As Agents and Teachers As Coaches
Three school examples show that personalization is most effective when students become active agents involved in determining what and how they learn.