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In order to realize the promise of innovative teaching models at the student level, school and district leaders must establish system-level conditions such as Essential Supports that allow educators to implement the design for students, Enabling Systems and Structures that lower barriers for implementation and accelerate uptake, and Ongoing Processes to align and improve. Learn more about our Innovative Learning Implementation Framework and explore strategies, advice, and tools below.

Framework graphic showing Conditions for Success and Scale; a three-part diagram with a student at the center, labeled "Teaching & Learning Model," surrounded by a large green circle split into 4 parts: Learning Materials & Tools, Community & Culture, Student Support Programming, and Professional Development & Learning. This is further surrounded by a thinner turquoise circle, split into several parts: Policies, Talent Systems, Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, Physical Environment, Time, Finance and Resourcing, Technology and Data Infrastructure, and Communications. The outermost circle is split into the following parts: Systems Visioning, Planning and Project Management, Continuous Improvement, Designing for Equity, and Change Management. The Conditions are as follows: innermost circle- Essential Supports, middle circle- Enabling Systems & Structures, outermost circle-Ongoing Processes.
Learning Materials & Tools
  • Core Curriculum
  • Supplemental Curriculum
  • Digital Curriculum
  • Assessments
  • Software Selection
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Digital Citizenship
Professional Development & Learning
  • Onboarding
  • Professional Development
  • Technology Training
  • Content Area Training
  • Pedagogy
Student Support Programming
  • Comprehensive Student Development
  • Social-Emotional Learning
  • Physical Health
  • Mental Health
  • Identity Development
Community & Culture
  • Student Culture
  • Staff Culture
  • Systems Building
  • Parent Engagement
  • Community Engagement

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Learning Materials & Tools

To effectively support innovative models across all levels, schools must coherently implement aligned resources, including analog and digital curriculum, assessments, instructional materials, and devices.

Below, find strategies and resources for:

  • Core Curriculum
  • Supplemental Curriculum
  • Digital Curriculum
  • Assessments
  • Software Selection
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Digital Citizenship
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Technology & Data Infrastructure
  • Technology Infrastructure
  • Connectivity
  • Hardware
  • Procurement
  • Network Systems
  • Data Infrastructure
  • Data Interoperability
  • Data Privacy & Security
Finance & Resourcing
  • Budgets
  • Finance Modeling
Physical Environment
  • Flexible Classroom
  • Physical Layout
  • Safety
Talent Systems
  • Leadership Pipeline
  • Teacher Pipeline
  • Staffing Model
  • Human Resource Systems
Communications
  • Communications Planning
  • Public Relations
 Time
  • School Schedule
  • Structure of the Day
 Research, Measurement, & Evaluation
  • Pilot Structure
  • Program Evaluation
  • Research
  • Learning
  • Measurement
  • Dissemination
 Policies
  • State Policy
  • District Policy
  • School Policy
  • Data Privacy Policy

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Learning Materials & Tools

To effectively support innovative models across all levels, schools must coherently implement aligned resources, including analog and digital curriculum, assessments, instructional materials, and devices.

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  • Digital Curriculum
  • Assessments
  • Software Selection
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Digital Citizenship
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Visioning
  • Strategy Development
  • Vision Development
  • Leadership Decisions
Planning & Project Management
  • Planning
  • Project Management
  • Implementation
Change Management
  • Leadership Development
  • Leadership Choices
 Continuous Improvement
  • Program Capture
  • Program Codification
Designing for Equity
  • Equity Framing & Focus
  • Co-Design with Stakeholders
  • Analysis & Reflection

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  • Core Curriculum
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  • Digital Curriculum
  • Assessments
  • Software Selection
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Digital Citizenship
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Hollister R-V School District

OER Educator Competencies

Common competencies for getting started with Open Educational Resources
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Student-Centered OER Course Design Process

Creating competencies to support the creation of curriculum
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CICS GAFE-Based Learning Management System

Using Google Apps to manage content and data
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Roots Elementary

Roots' Software Decision-Making

Simple selection and piloting process to implement software that best serves students
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OER Passport Online Modules

Self-paced online modules to explore and learn about OER
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Garnet Valley School District

Cohort Model Support Systems

Specific supports for professional learning and curating content
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Liberty Public Schools

OER Alignment and Vetting

Specific tools used to guide reflection on content consistency and quality
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Lindsay High School

Learner Choice of Learning Resources

Providing Learners options to choose how they learn
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Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School

Gathering Family Feedback on Edtech Usage

Strengthening the home-school connection through awareness, accessibility, and technical training around edtech tools
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Designing Student-Informed Modules Using OER

Utilizing OER curriculum to support students' needs through interdisciplinary modules
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Mendon-Upton Regional School District

Empowering Teachers to Pilot Edtech Tools

Including educator voice in the edtech selection and evaluation process
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Trailblazer Elementary School

Trailblazer Communications Plan

Creating Transparency and "Seeing is Believing" Tours
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Liberty Public Schools

Building With Standards

Building curriculum by breaking down standards
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CICS West Belden

CICS Short-Cycle Software Selection

Piloting and vetting with teachers to make software decisions
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Tools to Modify OER and Maintain Rigor

Emerging tools providing guidance on how to modify OER and maintain rigor
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Leveraging Data to Advocate for More Creative Learning Experiences

Using data to understand and create more creative learning experiences for students
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Districtwide Learning Framework To Create Coherence With Greater School Autonomy

Leveraging a learning framework to support school-based decision making
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Mendon-Upton Regional School District

Evaluating Edtech Tools

Methods districts can use to decide whether an edtech tool is worth the investment
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TLA Snapshot: The Middletown Learning Path

This report highlights an innovative use of OER in a New York school district.
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Liberty Public Schools

Resource Reallocation Options

Reallocating resources to support professional development
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Roots Elementary

Google Calendar for Schedules

Using Google Calendar to manage students’ schedules
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Chicopee Public Schools

Conducting an Edtech Inventory

Take stock of what edtech tools are in the school system from the start
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CICS West Belden

Open Learning Standards

Using Engage NY to create common objectives
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Guide: Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum

A whitepaper from the Center for Digital Education, Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
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Advice: Recommended OER Resources

Resources for educators looking for Open Education Resources
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Bronx Arena High School

Designing Custom Curriculum

Creating curriculum consistent with a self-paced, project-based approach
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Lindsay High School

Capacity Matrix as a Pacing Guide

Providing pacing expectations to help Learners better understand their relative progress
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Advice: Privacy Evaluations for Edtech Products

Common Sense Education's Privacy Initiative
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Creative Commons Basics

How Creative Commons licensing supports OER
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Grade-Level and Personalized Supports with OER

Utilizing OER flexibility to support math and ELA mastery
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Advice: Common Sense Education

Resources for teachers and families on digital citizenship
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Advice: Education Data

Data Quality Campaign
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Capturing Teachers’ Thoughts on Technology Usage

Providing opportunities for educators to share their perspective on technology through focus groups
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Using OER in a District Context

Explore stories of district journeys around OER
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Advice: What is OER?

Resources for leaders and educators to understand Open Educational Resources
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Use a rubric to get feedback in a useful and systematic way in evaluating and selecting edtech tools
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Gulfport Virtual Academy's Approach to Targeted, Relevant Virtual Learning

How a virtual school made instruction targeted and relevant to center students
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Personalized Learning for English Language Development (ELD)

Offering additional support for ELD Learners in a performance-based system overview
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Cabarrus Virtual Academy's Approach to Active Engagement in Virtual Learning

How a virtual academy integrated active engagement into their program
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Highline Virtual Academy's Approach to Student Expectations and Engagement in Virtual Learning

How one virtual program addressed student participation and discourse through expectations
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Roots' Supplements to Google Apps for Education

Improving upon standard data systems to match a mastery-based system and analyze data deeply
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Software Login Management

Creating a system for students to self-manage logging into their online programs
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Guide: OER Selection

Starting points for searching and selecting high-quality OER
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Collecting Student Feedback on Edtech Tools

Incorporating student voice in edtech evaluation to gauge learning and engagement
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Roots' Google Suite Usage

Using reliable productivity software to improve data use and productivity
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OER Evaluation Rubrics

Rubrics for evaluating rigor and curricular standards alignment
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One-to-One Device Ratio

Providing every student with a laptop
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Lovett’s Approach to Communications

Communications needs and goals evolved along with instruction