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Guide: Bellwether Education: Policy Playbook for Personalized Learning
Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit consulting group, offers a key policy "playbook" that can be instrumental to aligning systems in a strategic manner on the state and local level.
Advice: Creating an Acceptable Use Policy
Recommendations for developing Acceptable Use Policies.
Guide: Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined
The Center on Reinventing Public Education investigated policies that "get in the way" of principal actions to pursue personalized learning. In it, the authors find that many barriers are imaginary- leaders can find workarounds to drive change.
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...
Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined?
States and districts have traditionally controlled the resources that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to make the decisions they think will most benefit students are...
Elementary School Mastery-Based Grading Policy
Mt. Vernon Elementary School’s mastery-based grading policy, which outlines its grading weights, how to translate mastery into letter grades, gradebook expectations, and an example report card.
Creating Student-Centered Acceptable Use Policies
A case study of how Boston Public Schools updated their AUP. View their actual AUP here (link broken on ed.gov site).
Advice: Policies to Support Competency-Based Learning
State leaders must align policies to support transformation. This policy brief provides multiple concrete, actionable recommendations for state policymakers including those for creating competency-based education systems.
New England Board of Education Policy Spotlight: How Selective Colleges and Universities Evaluate Proficiency-Based High School Transcripts: Insights for Students and Schools
New England Board of Education position paper on mastery-based transcripts and college admissions that confirms there is no cause for concern for students with non-traditional transcripts as long as schools provide some basic information and context...
COSN: Rethinking Acceptable Use Policies to Enable Digital Learning: A Guide for School Districts
This whitepaper came out of a COSN Leadership Initiative.
State Profiles in Innovation
Produced by Innovation Partners America in partnership with The Learning Accelerator, State Profiles in Innovation: How Four States Are Advancing Blended and Personalized Learning Statewide, features profiles of state actors who are on the leading...