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Summary of NGLC’s Wave IV Grants
With this round of funding, NGLC is seeking significant student success results—outcomes that reveal themselves in the successful pathways that students take following graduation from high school. Specifically, grantees will need to demonstrate plans to support 1.5 years of growth annually on Common Core State Standards, graduate 90% of middle school students and 90% of high school students (using federal definitions for transience,) and matriculate 80% of students to postsecondary education. Grant applicants will also need to produce a financially-sustainable business plan. NGLC is also seeking approaches that are designed to extend beyond the Common Core standards, helping all students develop the skills, knowledge, and aptitudes necessary to lead productive lives in the 21st century—especially low-income students and students of color.
NGLC considers a “Breakthrough School” to be a new, whole-school model that incorporates all of the following design principles:
Student-Centered: designed to meet the diverse learning needs of each student every day
High Expectations: committed to ensuring that every student will meet clearly defined, rigorous standards that will prepare them for success in college and career
Self-Pacing and Mastery-Based Credit: enables students to move at their own optimal pace, and receive credit when they can demonstrate mastery of the material
Blended Instruction: optimizes teacher and technology-delivered instruction in group and individual work
Student Ownership: empowers students with the skills, information, and tools they need to manage their own learning
Financial Sustainability: sustainable on public per-pupil revenue within four years
Scalable: designed to serve many more students if it demonstrates impact
Launch Grants
($450,000/grantee including $300,000 1:1 match)
The Workshop School (PA)
In partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, this nonprofit organization is launching a new school that is fully organized by projects related to real-world problems rather than by academic subjects. The school’s model integrates blended learning and mastery-based progress with problem-based learning in grades 9 to 12 in order to unleash the creative and intellectual potential of young people to solve the world’s toughest problems. |