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.
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.
This report, from the Clayton Christensen Institute & Public Impact, explores how new teaching roles and blended learning can help students succeed.
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:
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.
This publication provides findings from a national survey of teachers and students to underscore how, and to what extent, core elements of personalized learning are taking hold in K-12 schools and districts across the United States.
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 taking hold nationwide. The survey results depict the ways in which personalized learning is emerging and developing.
This downloadable white paper provides a framework to help education leaders navigate through competing approaches to system-wide change.
One of the key challenges articulated by district and CMO leaders is deciding how to share information across their systems – should we stick to “best practices” or share our process and failures as well? This guide unpacks the relative benefit of each choice and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Overview of resource acquisition process for teachers in Greeley-Evans Weld County School District 6
Teacher guide that accompanies the GiveThx tool for classroom belonging.
