Andy Calkins is the Director of Next Generation Learning Challenges, a leading national catalyst and accelerator in the re-imagining of K-12 education in the United States. NGLC seeks to dramatically lift and transform student outcomes by helping to spur the development of next gen learning: student-centered, personalized, competency-based, blended, and experiential, organized around richer, deeper definitions of student success. Since its inception late in 2010, NGLC has invested more than $90 million in a range of innovations and whole-school models designed by educators and incorporating those principles. Along with catalyzing more than 130 next generation learning schools across the country, NGLC has more recently launched initiatives to rethink the nature and purposes of assessment to support deeper learning; reimagine professional learning; and create a new discipline focused on next gen change management, in conjunction with six pioneering school districts.