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 This blog is no longer being updated.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Student Travelers Experience the World to Know Themselves
A Colorado K-12 school's experiential approach provides all learners with transformative travel experiences.
Student Achievement
Opinion
Setting the Vision for Creating a Career Superhighway
The first step in envisioning a career superhighway in Vista, Calif.: level-set multiple perspectives with a landscape scan and compelling statistics.
Student Achievement
Opinion
Mastering Process in Competency-Based Learning
One possible drawback to competency-based learning is an overemphasis on the end product. What is it we really want students to master?
Student Achievement
Opinion
Ready for the Future of Education With Artificial Intelligence?
Educators who want to engage, inspire, and prepare their students for the future should pay attention to the ways AI is reshaping the world.
Student Achievement
Opinion
5 Steps to Teaching Students a Problem-Solving Routine
Students can use the five steps in this simple routine to solve problems across the curriculum and throughout their lives.
Student Achievement
Opinion
Transforming High School by Challenging Students to Take Action Based on Their Learning
A Vista High School student takes action on a topic she discovered during her learning, realizing the power of student voice to improve her own learning experiences.
Education
Opinion
A Joining of Hands: Looking Back at 2018, a Year of Collaboration and Connection
Preparing students for success in a changing world can't be done in isolation. Let's celebrate the connections and collaboration of next-gen learning.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Building on Success: Scaling Personalized Learning Across a Network
When one school in its network designed a successful personalized learning model, Distinctive Schools faced the challenge of how to scale the model across its network.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Family Engagement: The Gold Standard for Achievement
The Family and Community Engagement Network at Vista Unified school district is building authentic relationships with students and families in a servant-leadership approach.
Student Achievement
Opinion
A Force (for Student Success) to Be Reckoned With
Students from low-income households and students of color are often less prepared to succeed in today's competitive marketplace for careers than their white, affluent counterparts. YouthForce NOLA is working to change that.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Three Essential Ingredients for a Student-Centered Classroom
When these three ingredients are present in a truly student-centered lesson, students are most likely to learn both academic content and productive habits of mind.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Transforming High School by Supporting Student Self-Discovery
Two Vista High School students describe how the process of self-discovery within Challenge-Based Learning helps them progress as learners.
School & District Management
Opinion
Meet the Winners of the First Boston Public Schools' Innovation Contest
Higginson Elementary School in Boston addresses inequitable access to technology, especially for students with disabilities who need technological accommodations, with a tech-enabled project-based-learning curriculum.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Ed Tech and Universal Design for Learning: Because One Size Fits None
The UDL guidelines offer a valuable framework for educators who have embraced next-generation learning to improve teaching and learning for all people by designing at the margins.