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Glossary
Part of transforming education means transforming the language we use to speak about it. Our glossary can help clarify any questions you might have about the meaning and implication of the words we are using.
Here is a list of our FAQ’s. If you have a question on a specific word and how we use it, please see our glossary above.
I would like to share and speak about NPDL with my peers. Are there any resources available for this?
A Here you can find our Invitation to Learn, an overview guide to help explain what NPDL is and how we work. If you feel like you require additional items, please just contact us! We would be happy to help in any way we can!
I want to join. How can an individual get involved?
A The best way for an individual or single school to get involved is by following the NPDL Connect blog which engages educators from all around the world. There is also the opportunity to attend our Global Deep Learning Lab as a non-NPDL member.
At this point in time individual membership is not available. NPDL emphasizes the need to shift systems, and therefore the focus is on building network capacity, collective cognition and collaborative expertise by bringing networks/districts/groups of schools on board.
Why is there a required number of schools needed to start a Cluster or Associate Network?
A Central to the NPDL Whole System Change process is the learning and new knowledge that comes from collaboration. The learning partnerships that develop between Cluster and Associate Network schools as they assess, analyze, measure and change is critical to improving conditions to allow for Deep Learning.
For additional background information on the partnership and to see where we have been and where we are going, please feel free to read a few of our previously published papers and reports. As this is a living and learning partnership, please understand that some direction and ideas have evolved since they were originally published.
Engage the World – Change the World (2017)
Deep Learning has claimed the attention of educators and policymakers around the world. This book not only defines what deep learning is, but takes up the question of how to mobilize complex, whole-system change and transform learning for all students. The book is available for purchase here.
Deep Learning: Shaking the Foundations (2017)
This white paper by Michael Fullan, Peter Hill, and Santiago Rincón-Gallardo offers an immersion in the issues and actions in the pre-K -12 school systems that are rapidly forming what might become a social movement in Deep Learning.
Invitation to Learn (2015)
Invitation to Learn is an overview of NPDL and a guide for how to get involved with the global partnership.
Education Plus (2014)
In Education PLUS, Michael Fullan and Geoff Scott explore the effect of education in the new pedagogies on the human being. Rather than only impacting learning in the classroom, the new pedagogies enable all learners to lead lives of constant growth, discovery and ethical action both during and beyond formal education.
The act of learning is no longer confined within an established period marked by a fixed beginning and end of a school day.
Instead, learning is lifelong and endlessly important in the navigation of a complex world that necessitates problem solving, creativity and innovation.
Suite of Tools Narrative (2014)
This paper tells the story of the development of the Suite of Tools for New Pedagogies for Deep Learning: A Global Partnership.
Towards a New End – New Pedagogies for Deep Learning Invitation (2013)
A white paper by Global Leadership Director Michael Fullan and Maria Langworthy providing an overview of the objectives and systemic change required to produce deep learning in the classroom.