New Tech Network
Project Title
As a final grant to support the New Tech Network of schools
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded twenty-five years ago, New Tech Network (NTN) leverages rigorous project-based practices to support deeper learning in over 240 elementary, middle, and high schools in twenty-four states and the District of Columbia, serving a geographically diverse population of students: 48 percent of schools are in urban areas, 31 percent are situated in suburban communities, and 21 percent are in rural areas. NTN high school students graduate at a rate of 95 percent compared to the national average high school graduation rate of 85 percent and persist in college at a rate of 82 percent compared to 74 percent nationally. With prior Corporation support, NTN deepened partnerships within three districts (Farmington ISD, Bay City ISD, and Hardin County Schools) to increase access to high-quality learning environments to approximately 30,000 students. Renewed support will enable NTN to spread its model to four districts, reaching over 8,000 students, significantly increasing both the opportunities and quality of deeper learning experiences for enrolled students.
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Project Title
For refining and scaling the New Tech model and diffusing best practices
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
For too many of today’s students, there continues to be a disconnect between their high school learning experiences and the demands they will face after graduation. Students need to be equipped with skills that will allow them to succeed in high school and college and navigate a shifting workforce. While we have seen the rise of innovative models that address this need, barriers to scale prevent these experiences from reaching all students. New Tech Network (NTN) has decades of experience creating schools that prepare students for postsecondary success. The NTN model, which is currently used in 200 schools serving 85,000 students, leverages project-based learning (PBL) and student-centered practices to support deeper learning. NTN’s traditional school partnership model spanned multiple years and involved comprehensive technical assistance. With Corporation support, NTN developed alternative pathways to school transformationto increase the number and diversity of schools engaging in high quality PBL. Continued support will build upon this work by deepening NTN’s partnerships within districts so that more students have access to high-quality learning environments that prepare them for postsecondary success, and so school and system leaders have the support needed to manage and sustain school improvement.
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For refining and scaling the New Tech model and diffusing best practices
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
33 months
Description
Over the past two decades we have seen the rise of school models and programs that more effectively prepare students for long-term success, but barriers to scale prevent these experiences from reaching all students. New Tech Network (NTN) is one such model and, with current Corporation support, has been exploring alternative pathways to implementation in order to increase the number of teachers and students engaged in high-quality project-based learning. NTN supports districts and charter organizations to create personalized, project-based learning experiences for 85,000 students in 200 schools across the country, and their students graduate high school and persist in college at significantly higher rates than the national average. With current Corporation support, NTN has tested and refined its approach to spreading the NTN model through two new pathways to school transformation: NT Teams and NT Practices.
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For refining and scaling the New Tech school model and diffusing best practices
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past decade, the movement to create more robust learning environments has expanded significantly, with schools and districts across the country adopting models of learning that meet the needs of 21st century learners. But despite their promise, many aspects of these models have proven difficult to implement, and the potential for improved student outcomes has yet to be fully realized. New Tech Network (NTN) has developed a research-based, educator friendly model in which they partner with districts to transform schools through implementation of personalized, project-based, and mastery-based approaches. This grant will build on previous Corporation support to expand whole-school transformation by refining the NT Teams strategy, a low cost, low coaching approach to school-level change beginning with a single grade team. This grant will also allow NTN to develop an approach to scaling their model by partnering with districts outside of their network to implement proven aspects of their work.
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Project Title
For a project to understand and address the challenges associated with integration of personalized and project-based pedagogies through the identification of best practices within the New Tech Network and design of technology-based resources and
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
7 months
Description
To prepare students for success in life, college, and the careers of tomorrow, they need access to student-centered, rigorous learning experiences that enable the development of 21st century knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Personalized and project-based learning are two instructional pedagogies that can enable student success, but significant challenges face teachers seeking to simultaneously operationalize personalized and project-based learning. New Tech Network (NTN) partners with schools to better support students and teachers with a proven K-12 model, a project-based learning platform, and powerful professional development. With Carnegie support, they will continue to innovate and iterate upon their model through the development of a personalized project-based approach to teaching and learning. In this project, NTN will 1) develop a more robust understanding of challenges to operationalizing an integrated approach, and 2) identify best practices from within the New Tech Network and conceptualize technology-based tools that can help teachers better manage the processes of designing and facilitating personalized project-based learning.
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For enhancing the quality of New Tech Network's current approach to whole school transformation, piloting alternate approaches to school transformation, and building knowledge about the impact and efficacy of both strategies
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Students require deep, challenging, and relevant learning experiences in order to prepare for productive futures, and transformation at the classroom, school, and system levels is needed to bring these experiences to every student. New Tech Network (NTN) has a twenty-year history of enabling school transformation by partnering with school districts to support practitioners to implement personalized, project-based learning. This grant will enable NTN to enhance the instructional and pedagogical resources that exist on its online learning platform, Echo, and pilot a new partnership model in which teacher teams (NT Teams) will drive school-level change beginning in the classroom. This grant will also provide support for the research and evaluation of these efforts so that NTN can measure success and leverage key insights to drive continual improvement, including analysis of the mechanisms by which classroom-level innovation may spread to whole-school transformation.
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For integrating blended learning components in STEM courses
Date
Mar. 01, 2012
Duration
33 months
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Project Title
Toward national expansion of a network of high schools and organizational capacity building to support expansion
Date
Dec. 03, 2009
Duration
24 months