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Roots Executive Director Provides Overview of Utilizing NWEA MAP
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how the team uses NWEA's MAP assessment to understand how the school is doing compared to others nationally.Transcript: Jon Hanover: We take the NWEA MAP fall, winter, spring, and that's kind of our...
Trailblazer Elementary School
Trailblazer Elementary School serves K-5 students in Colorado Springs School District 11, infusing competency development, personalized learning and collaboration to provide real world learning opportunities for students.
Short-Cycle Innovation Approach
Trailblazer uses a short cycle innovation approach to address challenges and test improvements.
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
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.
Diverse Data Sources
Teachers at Valor employ a variety of assessments to collect formative, summative, and benchmark data. They use this data to improve instruction.
Supporting Teachers Shifting to Blended Learning
As a small district, Cisco ISD must be creative and intentional in how it allocates resources to support its blended learning teachers.
Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
Centralized vs. Decentralized Implementation: How do we decide what the district should hold tight vs. loose?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of centralized or decentralized implementation of new instructional models and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
“Fast and Furious” vs. “Slow and Steady”: How fast should we be moving from pilot to scale? What will help us best achieve sustainability?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.
Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience: How flexible should our district strategy be over time?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.