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How to Spark Education Innovation in Your State
Watch this strategy session from the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s National Summit 2015 to see experts discuss the differences between innovative education models and explore a range of policies and steps toward implementation states can...
Guide: State Framework for Accelerating Blended Learning
The TLA framework outlines seven change levers (all potential entry points) that are essential to statewide blended learning. The framework helps state actors at many levels begin to better understand the role they can play in a transition to...
Advice: Select a Competency Framework
Here are four different approaches to competencies/frameworks when approaching blended/personalized learning from iNACOL, Jobs for the Future (JFF), Chief State School Officers, Matchbook Learning, and Education Elements. Each example gives insight...
Example: Thrive Public Schools' Approach to Blended Learning
Thrive Public Schools defined blended learning and designed a rubric to guide educators on not only what blended learning looks like in practice but also how to assess their mastery of key components needed for successful implementation.
Advice: What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain.
Bellwether Policy Playbook for Personalized Learning
Bellwether Education Partners' playbook is designed to help state and local policymakers identify the policy changes needed to expand access to quality personalized learning in their states and communities, and to give them the tools to make those...
Guide: District Financing to Scale Blended Learning
Overview of the importance of creating a multi-year financial plan for scaling blended learning, average cost driver information from various examples, and exemplar funding levers districts are using to pay for this work.
Transformative Budgeting for Digital Learning: NJ Department of Education
This guide intended to assist districts in rethinking traditional budgetary approaches in order to find possible ways to fund technology initiatives by repurposing existing funding sources. The paper offers step-by-step advice through investigation,...
Guide: Transformative Budgeting for Digital Learning
This guide intended to assist districts in rethinking traditional budgetary approaches in order to find possible ways to fund technology initiatives by repurposing existing funding sources. The paper offers step-by-step advice through investigation,...
Guide: Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum
This guide provides advice on how districts can move from selecting print content to identifying and obtaining high-quality digital content appropriately aligned with state-adopted standards.
Advice: Common Sense Education
Common Sense Education provides lesson plans, interactive games, professional development, and family education around digital citizenship.