Teaching & Learning Blog

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 This blog is no longer being updated.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 Next Gen Change: Stories From Three Educators
Three classroom educators describe how they applied a schoolwide goal to personalize learning to their own teaching this past year.
Contributing Blogger, June 14, 2019
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Student Achievement Opinion Oakland's Graduate Profile: A Spotlight on What Matters Most
A graduate profile can help build coherence for a school district by focusing instruction on what truly matters. To create its profile, Oakland Unified listened to students, alumni, and teachers and is now aligning resources toward the vision it sets.
Contributing Blogger, June 13, 2019
5 min read
Education Opinion Collaboration That Counts
As educators, we know that collaboration is important. How do we get students to see that, too?
Contributing Blogger, June 11, 2019
2 min read
Professional Development Opinion Making for Social Justice at Brighton High School
A Boston turnaround school wins the Autodesk-sponsored "Make It Real" competition, bringing a social-justice-oriented maker education to the students at Brighton High.
Contributing Blogger, June 6, 2019
6 min read
School Climate & Safety Opinion School Safety Is a $2.7 Billion Market. How Do Schools Know if They're Spending Effectively?
In addition to lives saved and perpetrators caught, what do we know about how school safety technology and drills influence student learning?
Contributing Blogger, June 3, 2019
3 min read
School Climate & Safety Opinion Transforming Schools Through Whole-Child, Hands-On, Community-Based Education
This Baltimore school has relied on hands-on, culturally relevant learning, true community and family engagement, and lots of fun to transform itself and better serve each child.
Contributing Blogger, May 30, 2019
5 min read
Assessment Opinion Keeping Students at the Center With Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments
Performance assessments provide a critical space for students to reflect on and share their personal stories and their identities as learners.
Contributing Blogger, May 28, 2019
9 min read
Professional Development Opinion Coaching From Within: A Hybrid Model of Teachers Coaching Teachers
Teachers who take on instructional-coaching responsibilities at Distinctive Schools deeply understand the next generation learning model and can better support other teachers in strengthening their craft.
Contributing Blogger, May 23, 2019
4 min read
Education Opinion Transformation Science: The Emerging Practice of Next Gen Change Management
If young Americans are going to emerge from our public schools ready to tackle the profoundly complex challenges of the 21st century, those who serve them need to tackle the equally profound challenge of enabling that readiness.
Andy Calkins, May 21, 2019
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Professional Development Opinion Common Planning for Teachers: An Interview With Math Director Don Mundt
Math teachers at Nathan Hale Middle School in Norwalk, Conn., created space for common planning time to share instructional strategies and ask for help.
Contributing Blogger, May 20, 2019
3 min read
Professional Development Opinion Next Gen Learning Requires Next Gen Change Management
Mission Vista High School in Vista, Calif., empowers educators to own and lead the transformation of student learning.
Contributing Blogger, May 17, 2019
10 min read
Student Achievement Opinion How Might We Foster More Engaging Student-Learning Opportunities? Industry Partnerships
For the past decade, the St. Vrain Valley school district has fostered strong partnerships between industry and education to advance learning environments, the future workforce, and its community.
Contributing Blogger, May 16, 2019
5 min read
Student Achievement Opinion Career Superhighway Journey Map
Vista Unified school district students, parents, teachers, and business leaders helped map a career-development pathway from prenatal through career for the community.
Contributing Blogger, May 15, 2019
8 min read
Education Opinion How Great Teachers Are Thinking Outside the Classroom to Help Students Learn
This Teacher Appreciation Week, stories of creative ways that teachers go beyond the traditional framework of schooling to meet the needs of the students in their class.
Contributing Blogger, May 10, 2019
4 min read