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Advice: Privacy Evaluations for Edtech Products
Common Sense Education developed a privacy evaluation initiative to help districts, schools, and teachers make more informed decisions about the apps they use with students.
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...
Example: Four State Profiles in Innovation
See profiles of GA, TN,TX, and RI and learn why they are on the leading edge of cultivating blended and personalized learning.
Advice: Establish a statewide vision and plan
Three states share their approach to developing a statewide vision for innovation in education.
Aurora Institute Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework
TLA partnered with the Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL) to work with experts and practitioners around the country to draft an initial set of teacher competency standards for blended learning classrooms. It’s our hope that this framework will help...
Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Environments - 2020 Edition
In 2015, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Students at the Center initiative at Jobs for the Future released the first-ever set of comprehensive competencies for teaching in personalized, learner-centered settings. The...
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: 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.
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...
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...