lighting the path to personalized learning: inspiring stories from next gen schools
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A report produced by Getting Smart in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges uses narrative storytelling to trace the journey of 11 of NGLC’s breakthrough model schools. The schools represent a cross-section of charter, district, new and turnaround grant recipients in various stages of planning and operation. It examines the stories of the schools through the lens of the Personalized Learning School Design Attributes, which is the most recent expression of NGLC’s design criteria for school models: High expectations for college readiness, Personalized learning for all students, and Optimized for scale. The report also includes links to helpful multimedia video featuring insights from educators and school operators on-the-ground.TRANSCRIPT
11 Stories of Next Gen Schools
As Told by Students & Teachers
High Expectations for College Readiness
Read their stories at GettingSmart.com
Danville School District
“The implementation of performance-based assessments has pushed our students beyond where they have ever reached before, and the high school better be ready for a whole new level
of 21st-century Achievers coming to them next year!” Amy Galloway, Former
PrincipalBate Middle School
Piedmont Middle School
“…with a desire that accelerated growth will result in viable career options for students as well as the
return of many of them to the community post-college.”
Magnolia Montessori for All
“The greatest lesson we’ve learned so far is that when doing this work we should be as
strategic as possible about what we decide to tackle all at once…we should be
strategic about taking on the most significant key levers in the beginning.Sara Cotner & team, Magnolia Montessori for
All
USC Hybrid High
Nolan Elementary-Middle School
“As teachers and community members tossed out the debris, the
school worked to scrap its old culture with a dramatic shift from a traditional model of instruction to a
blended, student-centered model.”
Personalized Learningfor All Students
Read their stories at GettingSmart.com
Summit Denali
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
“But over a January dinner with Tom, it was clear that there were a lot of details to work out on the joy-rigor paradox they imagined before 132 sixth graders showed up.”
Florida Virtual School
“‘Any time, any place, any path, any pace’ is the motto
Florida Virtual School has followed since its founding in 1997 and with this new phase
[opening an in-person blended approach that is
mastery-based, personalized and self-paced] the
statement epitomizes the flexible learning environment of a
personalized learning school.”
Optimized for Scale
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Horry County Schools
“The district has found value in a pilot model at the middle school level
that implements change quickly and provides a safe haven for building best practices to inform
and transform work throughout the district.”
Cornerstone Health + Technology High School
“Before opening the charter high school and a feeder elementary school
in 2012, Cornerstone had a 20-year track record of operating great schools on
limited budgets.”
Lebanon School District
“The goal of Lebanon High School was two-fold: first, to
provide cost-effective learning that was much more personalized than it
ever had been, and, second, to show that transforming a “mainstream” school
to blended learning was not only possible but very
doable.”
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