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.
This report by Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute is the first in a series documenting Fuse RI, which is a three-year project funded by TLA with a goal of developing a statewide system for sharing, implementing, evaluating, and scaling blended learning and instructional personalization across Rhode Island. The project consists of three key components that address critical gaps in building system-level competencies to support implementation, creating a statewide pipeline of blended learning leaders, and building customized resources for districts.
Chiefs for Change championed a provision in ESSA that will provide SEAs and LEAs with resources to support Direct Student Services (DSS). This is possible through a 3% discretionary state reservation of Title I funding. This will allow states to work with districts to re-think the use of a portion of Title I funds to provide innovative approaches to bringing value and service to educators, families, students, and taxpayers.
Bellwether Education Partners’ playbook is designed to help state and local policymakers identify the policy changes needed to expand access to quality personalized learning in their states and communities, and to give them the tools to make those changes. Each of the 15 policy ideas, or “plays,” in this playbook provides background context on the challenges it is designed to address and the benefits it will produce, examples of places where similar policies have been implemented, and a discussion of the policy or implementation considerations that must be taken into account.
The playbook offers specific recommendations for addressing the three crucial ways in which policymakers can help fuel the growth of innovative approaches to personalized learning:
Bellwether stresses that bringing high-quality personalized learning to scale will require both removing barriers and addressing the underlying factors of demand and supply for personalized learning.
The State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning helps states and stakeholders define and navigate their pathway from the exploratory phase of system design, where a limited number of districts engage in personalized learning practices, to statewide transformation.
This framework is designed to help states build awareness of what it will take to evolve policy systems to support exploration, replication and ultimately statewide transformation to ensure personalized learning opportunities for all students.
Open Textbooks Cost Savings Calculator: A simple tool that calculates the cost savings of using open textbooks.
An interactive report from EducationSuperHighway on the status of K-12 connectivity state-by-state.
EducationSuperHighway partners with governors and state agencies to accelerate school upgrades, helping to ensure that state leaders take advantage of billions in FCC funding to get fiber to every school, Wi-Fi in every classroom, and broadband schools can afford.
Measurement Dissemination Goals for all stakeholders: Part 2 of a 4-part collection that outlines the skills, knowledge, and activities necessary for multiple stakeholders to share and understand the foundational knowledge required to implement and measure blended learning.
