New Tech Network

New Technology Network, LLC supports schools and school districts to ensure all students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in college, career, and civic life. New Tech Network will implement collaborative cohorts of California schools that focus on improving student outcomes in the areas of the use of performance assessment and the education of English Language Learners. Through attention and leadership, this project will ensure that deeper learning outcomes are fostered and provided to all students (especially from communities of poverty and English Language Learners), a key aspiration of the field.

Over the past three years, the Program provided project support to the Deeper Learning Network (DLN), a "network of networks" consisting of ten school reform models totaling some 500 public schools across the country. The DLN has helped make the case for the viability of deeper learning, offering examples of it in action and providing locations for site visits by policymakers. We will provide "tie off" grants to the DLN in order to refocus our funding on research that addresses policy reform needs, development of new assessments of the harder-to-measure deeper learning competencies, and capacity building for educators to understand and make use of student achievement evidence.