State leaders can use this tool to rate the presence or absence of eight key conditions that illuminate the ‘ease of doing work’ within a particular jurisdiction to cultivate and accelerate statewide blended learning.
Watch this strategy session from the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s National Summit 2015 to see experts discuss the differences between innovative education models and explore a range of policies and steps toward implementation states can pursue to encourage innovation.
States and districts have traditionally controlled the resources that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to make the decisions they think will most benefit students are organizing in new ways and attempting to provide students with a more personalized learning experience.
But even principals who use their newfound independence to aggressively reallocate resources say that persistent district, state, and federal barriers prohibit them from doing more. The authors of this report investigated the barriers principals cited, sometimes with the assistance of state education agencies, to determine whether there were work-arounds that principals didn’t realize. What the authors found is simultaneously troubling and encouraging: principals have far more authority than they think. Only 31% of the barriers cited were “real” – immovable statues, policies, or managerial directives that bring the threat of real consequences if broken.
This guide, created by The Learning Accelerator, Getting Smart, and DigitalLearningNow!, provides a step-by-step action plan for blended learning implementation decisions. The authors cover 18 actions in four areas.
This playlist, created by Summit Public Schools, outline’s the organization’s framework and practice strategies for managing your stakeholders in the midst of a change process.
Blended Learning in Action is a book written by Catlin Tucker, Tiffany Wycoff, and Jason Green. The authors have created an online compendium that offers resources for each stage of change covered in the text.
EdSurge developed a framework to help categorize service providers that are helping schools and districts redesign their models. The framework includes a set of essential questions that educators and administrators are asking as they go through the process of redesign, as well as a collection of elements, or building blocks, that schools and districts are commonly looking to transform.
The Education Elements Personalized Learning District Framework encompasses the 25 areas we think are essential for a district to effectively launch, support, sustain, and grow personalized learning. We use this to guide our work at both the school and district level and to help school systems identify strengths, area of need, and potential roadblocks.
Dr. John Kotter has researched the processes of leaders trying to transform or execute their strategies for over four decades. Through this work, he identified and described success factors in a framework for chance called the 8-Step Process for Leading Change.
Blended learning researchers and consultants, Michael Horn and Heather Staker, have developed a design process to help schools and districts build effective blended learning programs. This nine-step framework offers a roadmap for users seeking to design and pilot disruptive innovations in their districts, schools, or classrooms.
