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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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Policies

Education policy, at the local and state levels, can catalyze or impede innovation in schools. Policy can be a powerful driver of change, setting the stage with principles, rules, and guidelines to support innovative strategies, and increasing funding and flexibility to districts that are shifting to innovative learning. Policymakers can also help connect innovators and remove barriers to scale.

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  • State Policy
  • District Policy
  • School Policy
  • Data Privacy Policy
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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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Policies

Education policy, at the local and state levels, can catalyze or impede innovation in schools. Policy can be a powerful driver of change, setting the stage with principles, rules, and guidelines to support innovative strategies, and increasing funding and flexibility to districts that are shifting to innovative learning. Policymakers can also help connect innovators and remove barriers to scale.

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  • District Policy
  • School Policy
  • Data Privacy Policy
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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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Policies

Education policy, at the local and state levels, can catalyze or impede innovation in schools. Policy can be a powerful driver of change, setting the stage with principles, rules, and guidelines to support innovative strategies, and increasing funding and flexibility to districts that are shifting to innovative learning. Policymakers can also help connect innovators and remove barriers to scale.

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  • District Policy
  • School Policy
  • Data Privacy Policy
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Leveraging Disciplinary Data to Advocate for Students

Using data on disciplinary events to advocate for equitable practices
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Driving EdTech Systems: Student Data Privacy

Equitable edtech systems ensure student data privacy
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Advice: Establish a statewide vision and plan

Strategies from Rhode Island, North Carolina, and Delaware
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Advice: EducationSuperHighway

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Uxbridge Public Schools

Driving EdTech Systems: Uxbridge Public Schools

What does edtech systems improvement look like in practice?
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Student-Centered Acceptable Use Policy at BPS

Case study of Boston Public Schools' AUP strategy
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Guide: Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined

This report explores how Principals can overcome obstacles to change teaching and instruction
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Example: Four State Profiles in Innovation

How four states developed and executed strategies to accelerate blended learning
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Advice: Support and Leverage for Early Adopters

How four states empowered innovators
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Tool: Creating a Statewide Culture of Innovation

Emerging Lessons and a Tool for State and District Leaders
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Advice: Policies to Support Competency-Based Learning

Five Critical Issues to Transform K–12 Education
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Meriden Public Schools

Offering College-Credit Bearing Opportunities

Partnering with universities to provide college credit courses in high school
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Advice: Upgrading Statewide School Internet Connectivity

EducationSuperHighway’s State Partnership Program
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Steps to Conduct a Policy Context Evaluation

A step-by-step look into assessing policy to establish sustainable programs
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Resources for the K-12 Education Sector to Prepare for the NTIA Digital Equity Funds

Resources to help school systems, states, libraries, community-based organizations, and others in the K-12 sector advance digital equity
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How to Organize Your Data

Using Google Drive and Google Sheets to organize data
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Monterey Peninsula Unified School District

Distance-Learning MOU With a Focus on Instructional Aims

Creating an agreement with the local union for remote learning centered on students
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Engaging Leaders in Culture Change

“You’re talking about a cultural transformation, and you’re not going to get that without the leaders demonstrating it.” (Dr. Lisa Williams)
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Advice: Ensure Sufficient Connectivity

Recommended broadband capacity for districts
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Advice: Device Expectations

Establish clear rules and procedures for devices
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Advice: Communicating about Competency-Based Learning

A state policy messaging toolkit
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Driving EdTech Systems: Racial Equity

Equitable edtech systems promote racial equity
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Applying for State Innovation Waivers to Support Long-Term Transformation

“Most ESSA-related measures aren’t pushing the envelope, but they could.” (Karen Perry)
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Guide: State Framework for Accelerating Blended Learning

TLA Framework for Cultivating Blended Learning at the State Level
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Natick Public Schools

Driving EdTech Systems: Natick Public Schools

What does edtech systems improvement look like in practice?
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Example: Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for Education

Design-Based Process for 2015-2020 Plan