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= New Tech Network = The New Tech Network, formerly the New Technology Foundation and the New Tech High Foundation, is a nonprofit organization managing a network of over 189 schools and 116 districts, operating in 26 U.S. states and the Australian states of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. As of 2018, over 72000 students and 4400 teachers were in the network.

History
The New Tech Network has its roots in in Napa, California, where, in the mid 1990's, a group of local entrepreneurs observed graduates of the regions high schools coming out "woefully underprepared for the contemporary workplace". The group then developed an education model, and used their financial resources in partnership with the Napa Valley Unified School District to build a new high school based on their model, which they named the Napa New Technology High School

One business community member, Ted Fujimoto, was instrumental in envisioning the education model. Napa New Technology High School is the first of over 80 schools based on this model across the United States. The school is a National Model School, Center for Secondary Special Education School Reform (CSSESR) Showcase School, and has received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation replication grant.

In 2000, the school received a $4.9 million replication grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for the purpose of replicating the education model in schools across the country. as a result, the New Technology Foundation was established the same year to administer the development and deployment of the education model.

The New Tech networks primary mode of instruction is Project Based Learning (PBL). The model's implementation of Project Based Learning was originally derived from project management protocols used by teams at Napa-based company Landmark Consulting Group, Inc. (owned by Ted Fujimoto) for software development and business process re-engineering projects.

The school originally used Lotus Notes groupware software with custom templates to aid in project team collaboration and communication. These templates were modified for school use from Landmark Consulting Group's project templates.

In yyyy, the New Technology Foundation migrated the entire system to be web-based—now called Echo.

In 2009, The New Technology Foundation was acquired by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and was renamed the New Tech Network.

Philosophy
The New Tech Network's model is based upon Project Based Learning (PBL), with an emphasis on group collaboration, technology, and real world skills.

United States

 * Napa New Technology High School (NNTHS), Napa, California (
 * Rogers New Tech High School (RNTHS), Rogers, Arkansas (

Australia