TOOLS
Start Using the MyWays Toolkit in your School
The value of MyWays lies in the rich discussions, collaborative development, and transformative culture-building it can catalyze within your school or district. The MyWays Toolkit will help your community define success and align your learning and assessment designs to the MyWays Student Success Framework.
Explore the MyWays Toolkit below.
Community Presentation
Start here. When you bring your community members together, use the MyWays Impact Deck to explore the impact of new models for teaching and learning. It's a robust presentation complete with slides, talking points, and graphics. But you can personalize, customize, and make it your own, so that you can start the conversation in your community to explore MyWays' four big questions.
Talking points and activities to accompany the MyWays Impact Deck. Make a copy to customize.
Download this flexible and customizable tool to engage community members in exploring the big questions challenging public education today.
Please make a copy or download to customize this editable version of the MyWays Impact Deck. Feature your own students, modify the content, add your brand identity. But make a copy first!
Use this 2-minute video as part of your presentation to inspire your community to action.
Want help designing and facilitating community conversations? NGLC offers "Be Connected" community engagement services to introduce the urgent need for change and surface multiple, diverse "Voices of Learning" from your local community.
Understand Change
Why a changing world requires that we reimagine public schools
These tools help you address the big question: Why the urgency to change? What are the real-world conditions that your students will need to address?
Step-by-step instructions for using the tools in Exercise One.
Analyze how your school and communities' experiences with the Five Career Roadblocks align with the challenges young people face as they transition to work.
Analyze how your school currently prepares students for making the Five Work/Learn Decisions.
Analyze how your school and learning experiences currently provide opportunities for students to cultivate and grow their social network.
Analyze how your school and community is currently considering the five developmental tasks of adolescence, and the learning experiences that exist to address them.
Understand the changing world
This scaffolded, self-paced, and open online course helps you answer the question: What are the real-world conditions today that your students will need to address?
NGLC and 2Revolutions partnered to create the course within the Learn Next experience hub. The course is available by creating a free account.
Check out some more MyWays resources that relate to the UNDERSTAND question.
Define Success
Fine-tune your community’s definition of success.
These tools help you address the big question: What does success look like for students in a world of accelerating change?
Step-by-step instructions for using the tools in Exercise Two.
Instructions for using the Excel-based tool, including ways to customize for a range of practical purposes.
Success in a changing world
This scaffolded, self-paced, and open online course enables you to design a response to the challenges your students will face in our changing world and to work collaboratively with others in your community to redefine what success looks like for the students you serve.
NGLC and 2Revolutions partnered to create the course within the Learn Next experience hub. The course is available by creating a free account.
MyWays Competency Definitions
MyWays Competency Primers
MyWays Learning Outcomes
For information about this comprehensive tool that provides end-of-high-school learning objectives for each competency in the four MyWays domains, along with sample evidence and projects for demonstrating competence as well as links to relevant research and models of practice, please contact NGLC directly.
"Be Bold" with NGLC Services
Engage with NGLC Services to "Be Bold" as you create a broader, deeper success framework for your students and determine what redefined success then means for learning in your schools.
Check out more MyWays resources that relate to the SUCCESS question.
Design Learning
Map your learning design to your community’s definition of success and whole game learning. These tools help you answer the big question: How can your learning experience design help students develop the broader, deeper competencies?
Step-by-step instructions for using the tools in Exercise Three.
This project from High Tech Middle serves as a "worked case study" sample for using the MyWays tools in Exercise Three.
Design learning for a changing world
In this scaffolded, self-paced, and open online course, you will design (or redesign) a project or other powerful learning experience that embraces the full range of MyWays competencies that students need and deserve, including planning for authentic and varied assessments for learning.
NGLC and 2Revolutions partnered to create the course within the Learn Next experience hub. The course is available by creating a free account.
Use this toolkit to design learning using the Wider Learning Ecosystem, one of three MyWays learning constructs. These tools help you extend learning beyond a school building to provide learners with authentic, real-world learning experiences aligned to the MyWays Student Success Framework.
Self-assessment of readiness of learners, educators, and community partners for real-world learning.
Identify learning opportunities among the many types available in the Wider Learning Ecosystem.
"Be Courageous" Professional Learning Workshops
NGLC offers customized School Design Institutes, Learning Excursions, and MyWays workshop modules for teams of courageous district staff, school leaders, instructional coaches, and teacher-leaders.
Check out some more MyWays resources that relate to the LEARN question.
Design Assessment
Map your assessment design to the MyWays assessment strategies and MyWays Student Success Framework. These tools focus on the big question: How does your school gauge student progress in developing these competencies?
Step-by-step instructions for using the tools.
This project from High Tech Middle serves as a "worked case study" sample for using the MyWays tools in Exercise Three.
Design learning for a changing world
In this scaffolded, self-paced, and open online course, you will design (or redesign) a project or other powerful learning experience that embraces the full range of MyWays competencies that students need and deserve, including planning for authentic and varied assessments for learning.
NGLC and 2Revolutions partnered to create the course within the Learn Next experience hub. The course is available by creating a free account.
"Be Bold" with NGLC Services
Engage with NGLC Services to strengthen your assessment design to tap into our expertise developed via the MyWays Project research, Measures That Matter Most study, and Assessment for Learning Project.
Check out more MyWays resources that relate to the MEASURE question.
Photos:
Understand Change photo by Andrew F. Kazmierski
Define Success photo by Redd Angelo
Design Learning and Design Assessment photo used with permission from Project Lead The Way
