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Steps to Conduct a Policy Context Evaluation
This resource for education leaders aims to provide step-by-step guidance toward addressing policy in order to establish sustainable K-12 programs and transformation.
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.
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...
Example: Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for Education
Rhode Island, a state committed to implementing blended and personalized learning, developed and implemented a design-based, community-based, crowd-sourced strategic plan for public education. Discover the narrative, process, and key materials they...
Advice: Establish a statewide vision and plan
Three states share their approach to developing a statewide vision for innovation in education.
Tool: Creating a Statewide Culture of Innovation
TLA and 2Revolutions developed a framework, assessment tool, and Innovation Scorecard for organizational leaders at the state level as they work to create a Culture of Innovation.
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...
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.
Advice: Upgrading Statewide School Internet Connectivity
EducationSuperHighway partners with governors and state agencies to accelerate school upgrades, helping to ensure that state leaders take advantage of billions in FCC funding to get fiber to every school, Wi-Fi in every classroom, and broadband...
Course Access: Equitable Opportunities for College and Career Ready Students
Aurora Institute's (formerly iNACOL) paper on the fundamental concept of course access.
Course Access Opportunity Incentive: How States Can Incentivize Districts to Provide All Students with Access to Critical Courses
Policy toolkit on course access from ExcelinEd.