New Tech Network’s roots lay in business and community concerns that high school graduates were inadequately prepared to be the self-directed problem-solvers and collaborators that the contemporary workplace demands. Success with the first school in Napa, California led to the creation of NTN as a national non-profit organization, which has guided this movement’s growth. Today, New Tech Network consists of nearly 200 schools, in 26 states and Australia.

NTN has developed a comprehensive school model, a proprietary learning management platform, tools, resources, training events and implementation plans delivered by an exemplary team of coaches that enable school districts to reinvent schools with their local teachers through a multi-year partnership. While many organizations aspire to improve instructional practice, NTN’s approach creates and sustains changes to instruction across an entire school by also helping change the conditions that surround teaching and learning.

• By making learning relevant and creating a collaborative learning culture, students become connected to, engaged with, and challenged by their school, their teachers and their peers

• Through project-based learning, students become problem-solvers

• Through a technology-rich environment, teachers and students create, communicate, access information, and experience self-directed learning

• New Tech Network learning outcomes measure collaboration, written and oral communication and the development of student responsibility for their own learning, or agency

With a growing network, a proven model, and a demand for more district-level support, NTN is a catalyst for rapid innovation, improvement and scale. Public school districts are now turning to NTN to support the spread of innovative practices across multiple schools at all grade levels.

As districts implement the NTN model and turn one successful school into many, multi-school organizational change will become a major expansion strategy. By dramatically increasing the number of schools impacted by NTN’s proven model for change, many more thousands of students will have the chance to be leaders, innovators, and positive contributors in the world.