Tag: Visioning

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.

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.

Student Success 2025 is a student-centered, 10-year plan produced by the Vision Coalition and developed from the input of 4,000 Delawareans, including 1,300 Delaware students and recent graduates. The plan contains multiple recommendations including those that revolve around Personalized Learning, a core area of the plan.

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.

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.

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.

Trailblazer used this presentation to share their “Seeing is Believing” vision and plan.

This spreadsheet outlines all of Trailblazer’s strategic priorities and plans for the 2017 year.

The principal of Trailblazer discusses the rationale and benefits behind competency-based learning.

Via Infinity Learning Maps, school leaders and teachers are seeing students make positive changes to the way they learn in several months, whereas in the past those changes could take years or not happen at all.