Time for students to explore their passions
This strategy, created by Unlocking Time, captures how schools create time for students to explore their passions, encouraging student agency and creativity.
September 5, 2018
Craft Category: Artifacts
Dynamically re-group based on formative assessment
This strategy, created by Unlocking Time, captures how schools utilize formative assessment data to re-group students based on the goals of the activity and the needs of students.
September 5, 2018
Try a concept-progress model
Concept-progress strategies involve taking an academic concept and first focusing on large group “concept” instruction, then breaking students into smaller groups for targeted “progress” instruction. Check out Unlocking Time’s strategy on leveraging multiple staff to break students into groups.
September 5, 2018
Innovation Zones: Creating Policy Flexibility for Competency-Based Personalized Learning (updated August 2018)
This issue brief describes what innovation zones are, why they are important and highlights how the following seven states/localities have approached their innovation zones statutes and regulations:
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Kentucky
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- New York City
- North Dakota
Innovation zones or districts of innovation help state policy leaders identify outdated policies and regulations that may get in the way of educators designing new learning models to meet the needs of every student. They create space for districts and schools to innovate, identify policy barriers and remove them through waivers.
August 31, 2018
A National Landscape Scan of Personalized Learning in K-12 Education in the United States
To better understand how personalized learning is playing out across the nation, iNACOL partnered with the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), NORC at the University of Chicago, and LEAP Innovations to conduct a national survey of teachers and students. This report summarizes what these teacher and student surveys revealed about how personalized learning is — and is not — taking hold nationwide.
August 8, 2018
Personalized Learning at a Crossroads Lessons from the Next Generation Systems Initiative and the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools Initiative
In 2015 the Gates Foundation asked the Center on Reinventing Public Education to observe their Next Generation Grantees through the first two years of the initiatives. Our goal was to learn more about how these districts and regions were beginning to define and pursue personalized learning and what they were learning about how to innovate around personalized learning at scale.
August 8, 2018
Edtech Pilot Framework
The Edtech Pilot Framework from Digital Promise provides a step-by-step process to help education leaders and technology developers quickly access best practices, tools, and resources for running successful educational technology (edtech) pilots.
August 6, 2018
Partnerships that Work: Tapping Research to Address Learner Variability in Young Readers
Digital Promise Global’s Learner Positioning Systems (LPS) initiative brings together the current learning science research and research-based strategies to help educators and product developers support the full diversity of learners.
As a first step in their partnership with ReadWorks, LPS extensively reviewed ReadWorks’ product to create a draft assessment report of how ReadWorks could design its platform to further support learner variability. This report included recommendations of factors and strategies from the LPS Reading PK-3 model to potentially develop as features.
August 6, 2018
Innovative Staffing to Personalize Learning Report
This report, from the Clayton Christensen Institute & Public Impact, explores how new teaching roles and blended learning can help students succeed.
July 30, 2018
State Funding Strategies to Support Education Innovation
This issue brief highlights case studies and action steps for policymakers to deepen their understanding of state funding strategies to support innovation in K-12 education. In order for public schools and districts to effectively plan, launch and scale high-quality, innovative learning models, a focused approach to funding statewide initiatives and for building educator capacity is of growing interest.
To realize the goal of education system transformation, a sustained commitment to investing in innovation is critical. Innovation funding can provide for important capacity-building activities such as:
- Professional development,
- Technical assistance,
- Professional learning communities, and
- Statewide information dissemination.
In addition to the eight examples of how states approached funding, the issue brief offers state policymakers five action steps to fund state-level capacity-building activities for personalized, competency-based learning.
June 26, 2018