Measurement Implementation Objectives for all stakeholders: Part 4 of a 4-part collection that outlines the skills, knowledge, and activities necessary for multiple stakeholders to conduct, participate in, support, and seek out appropriately rigorous and relevant measurement to uncover new knowledge about blended learning effectiveness.
New England Board of Education position paper on mastery-based transcripts and college admissions that confirms there is no cause for concern for students with non-traditional transcripts as long as schools provide some basic information and context explaining their systems.
Measurement Competency Standards for all stakeholders: Part 3 of a 4-part collection that outlines the skills, knowledge, and activities necessary for multiple stakeholders to facilitate, support, and achieve application of relevant knowledge and resources to implement and measure blended learning.
The Remake Learning Playbook is a resource for people and organizations shaping the future of teaching and learning. Release 1 includes several chapters focused on the structure, strategies, and lessons learned by the Remake Learning Network, as well as previews of 10 case studies examining how learning has been remade in schools, museums, libraries, and communities throughout Pittsburgh. Release 2 features a beta of a web app that allows users to remix strategies from Playbook to build their own ‘Gameplan’ for creating their own learning innovation network, as well as an Advocacy Kit to make the case for learning innovation.
Education Innovation Clusters accelerate the pace of innovation by bringing together education, research, and commercial partners. The U.S. Department of Education seeks to identify forward-thinking regions where commercial, academic, and education partners have come together to form an innovation cluster focusing on a specific challenge that their region is uniquely suited to address and solve.
Commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, The New Opportunity to Lead provides a rationale and design for a statewide innovation capacity-building initiative comprised of three ideas: Investing in a new technology bond, developing an annual Accelerated Learning Challenge, and establishing a statewide network to bring together educators, innovators and venture capitalists to develop a common dialogue on innovation.
TLA Blended Learning Snapshot: A New Tool to Personalize Learning with Open Educational Resources: The Middletown Learning Path
Raise Your Hand Texas founded the Raising Blended Learners Initiative as a $2.5 million grant initiative that deliberately builds statewide expertise and capacity for blended learning.
