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“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.
Letting Schools Determine Their Implementation Timing
How to scale across all schools while still promoting school autonomy and choice.
Digital Promise Challenge Map
This Challenge Map from Digital Promise allows users to explore big challenges in education – from kindergarten readiness to school redesign - and how they play out in different contexts. The tool also connects users with ideas and resources from...
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...
KnowledgeWorks: A State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning
The State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning helps states and stakeholders define and navigate their pathway from the exploratory phase of system design, where a limited number of districts engage in personalized learning practices, to...
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...
Expanding Equity: Leveraging ESSA to provide Direct Student Services
Chiefs for Change championed a provision in ESSA that will provide SEAs and LEAs with resources to support Direct Student Services (DSS). This is possible through a 3% discretionary state reservation of Title I funding. This will allow states to...
Fuse RI: An Open Access Model of K-2 Blended Learning Implementation
This report by Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute is the first in a series documenting Fuse RI, which is a three-year project funded by TLA with a goal of developing a statewide system for sharing, implementing, evaluating, and scaling...
Texas Raising Blended Learners Initiative
Raise Your Hand Texas founded the Raising Blended Learners Initiative as a $2.5 million grant initiative that deliberately builds statewide expertise and capacity for blended learning.
Massachusetts Opportunity to Lead: Unleashing Innovation
Commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, The New Opportunity to Lead provides a rationale and design for a statewide innovation capacity-building initiative comprised of three ideas: Investing in a new technology bond,...
Advice: Support and Leverage for Early Adopters
Innovation in education does not always take hold when mandated solely from the “top down.” Early adopters at the school and district level can show the way for others across the state, and they provide authentic, real-world experience from which to...