Strength and Growth

More than twenty years after the first school opened in Napa, New Tech Network is one of the fastest growing school networks with a proven approach for student success.  New Tech Network provides  support to every demographic and community type.

Working together to transform schools

As a leading design partner for comprehensive school change,
New Tech Network, a national non-profit, works closely with nearly 200 districts and schools.

  • 95HIGH
    SCHOOLS
  • 42MIDDLE
    SCHOOLS
  • 35ELEMENTARY
    SCHOOLS
  • 5,000TEACHERS
  • 81,500STUDENTS
  • 103DISTRICTS

Transforming teaching and learning

Our core services include extensive planning, design, and implementation support that guide schools towards lasting change and ongoing improvement.

Planning by design

Districts and charter organizations receive coaching and support through all stages of planning and launching a New Tech school.

  • In-depth, informative learning tours for planning teams
  • Strategic support for a strong, sustainable implementation
  • Services customized to each school
  • On-site school readiness visit
  • Planning Academy courses including residencies for leaders and teachers
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Implementing for success

Extensive, individualized coaching from our experienced full-time staff helps teachers and leaders gain the skills they need to confidently implement the New Tech Network model. Professional Learning @ NTN offers a personalized system of learning opportunities designed to allow education professionals to connect and learn at their own pace, anywhere at any time, and focus on their own needs and interests.

  • On-site and virtual coaching
  • Site institutes
  • Leadership coaching and training
  • On-site convenings
  • Virtual workshops
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Expanding to system

Many districts are choosing to implement multiple New Tech Network K-12 schools to increase student engagement and broaden future success. New Tech Network supports districts in this work through development and coaching.

  • District innovation support
  • District innovation alignment
  • Visioning for system-wide innovation
  • Coach development program
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“New Tech contains some of the best education minds and leading edge thinkers on student-centered, inquiry-based learning. The network is full of experts to collaborate with who are willing to experiment and push the edges on things such as integrating projects across content areas, using authentic, real world experiences, and developing 21st century schools to prepare students with vital skills to be productive citizens in our global economy.”

— Mike Kaechle, New Tech Network Teacher

 

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Collaborative Learning Environment

Echo supports project-based learning and features an innovative gradebook that aligns to the deeper learning skills students will need in college and career. Digital tools, cultivated and aligned content, and a community of shared learning are integrated to create a powerful and innovative platform to support student and adult learning.

Tools

Architecture and feature sets aligned to Project Based Learning and other personalized deeper learning practices with a multi-dimensional gradebook organized around the assessment and reporting of student outcomes (skills) rather than assignments.

Content

Teachers, students, and parents at New Tech schools use Echo on a daily basis to access course resources, exemplar projects, project plans, assignments and an extensive library of instructional resources for teachers. Educators have the opportunity to create projects and access project and resource libraries.

Community

Echo allows schools to more easily exchange best practices, collaborate in real time, connect and share projects, and develop cross-school projects for students.  In short, the Echo community is vibrant and growing.

 

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Help us increase our impact

We are building a dynamic, perpetually learning network of districts, schools and educators. The success, sustainability, and growth of New Tech Network is made possible by support from philanthropic organizations and district engagements.

Partners & Collaborators

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    Through project-based learning, New Tech Network schools empower and challenge students to learn and succeed, to collaborate and communicate, and to engage in the world around them.

    Contact us to learn more about student success or join us for a school tour to see firsthand how we are changing education.