11 Stories of Next Gen Schools

As Told by Students & Teachers

High Expectations for College Readiness

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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

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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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