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Mtakuja Secondary School: The First All Quest Forward Learning Classroom
Mtakuja’s Form I is the first class in the world to fully adopt the NGL framework as their main source of curriculum.... Read More
What Did You Make at School?
One of the NGL design principles focuses on the importance for students to make and create. The term creating can refer to a broad range of activities, including note-taking, mind-mapping, and essay-writing, but it can also extend to... Read More
Students Explore Counterculture with Quest Forward Learning
Students at Burrell High School use NGL for an interdisciplinary project on Vietnam Era America.... Read More
Project-Based Learning, or Just a Project?
Projects are on the top of our minds right now as the Quest Forward Research and Learning Design team creates quests built around design challenges and opportunities for original research and inquiry. One question I frequently ask is,... Read More
Q&A with Nebeyou Esayas
Nebeyou Esayas created his own business, SimpleServe, as part of the first Launch Academy program.... Read More
Five Tips for Teaching a Teacher
In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation surveyed over 1,600 teachers about their experience with professional development (PD). Overall, 71% of teachers were unsatisfied with their PD and less than 18% felt they had any say in... Read More
Teaching in Africa: What an Experience!
“The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa—for he has so much to look forward to.”—Richard Mullin. This quote sums up the 13 days I spent teaching in and experiencing the Rukwa region of Tanzania. The... Read More
Tablet Donations Usher in New Era for Tanzanian Schools
A new era dawned in Tanzania's digital education landscape on Monday when a program, aimed at providing secondary school students with tablets pre-loaded with educational materials, was launched. The program's ultimate goal is to... Read More