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Innovation Zones: Policy Flexibility to Reimagine and Modernize K-12 Education Post-COVID-19
Innovation zones represent an important policy lever states can use as K-12 reimagines its future post-COVID. Innovation zones are created through state legislation to give schools and districts freedom from burdensome administrative regulations....
Determining Attendance and Alternatives to Seat-Time
Attendance looks dramatically different in the COVID-19 era. Many states and districts have sent us requests to support the alignment of policy with a more innovative imagining of attendance that moves away from the old-fangled definition based on...
Mere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement
School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend with the myriad challenges posed by COVID-19. In fact, they must reimagine what agency and engagement can look like in cases when students are...
Step One: Craft a compelling why
Successful blended and personalized implementations have clear statements for why they are pursuing change through blended and personalized learning. They ground all of their work in this “why,” referring back to it again and again.
West Belden's Extended Core Content Blocks and Planning Time
West Belden uses block scheduling for core content areas to ensure enough time for differentiation.
Multiple Methods of Support
West Belden has a range of learning resources and in-person support when building students' PLPs.
LPS Richmond
LPS Richmond California is part of the Leadership Public Schools (LPS) network of public charter high schools. It has developed a personalized academic numeracy program called Navigate Math.
Pleasant View Elementary School
Pleasant View is a school serving students in pre-K through 5th grade in Providence, Rhode Island. The school partners with Summit Public Schools to implement personalized learning in the 5th grade.
Roots Elementary
Roots Elementary was a K-2 charter school in Denver that used technology along with innovative staffing, curricular, and physical structures to provide a student-centered learning experience.
ReNEW DTA Academy
ReNEW’s Dolores T. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) is a charter school serving students in pre-K through 8th grade in New Orleans, LA that has developed a mastery-based, 8th grade math program.