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Education Policy Issues for the COVID-19 Era: Policy Actions and Responses to Leverage the Moment for Future Readiness
As school districts deliberate over reopening schools with the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing, we’ve developed this report with strategic guidance on how to harness our current opportunity to transform K-12 education. Education Policy Issues for...
A Mastery-Based Math Teacher's Journey
This case study highlights a high school math teacher’s successful journey of taking the steps needed to move away from traditional teaching methods to innovative pedagogies supporting mastery-based teaching and learning. Mastery-based learning...
Aligning Education Policy with the Science of Learning and Development
This report analyzes recent learning sciences research and provides nine recommendations to address a critical need: how can education policy support and align with the science of learning and development? Research on how students learn and develop...
Innovation Zones: Policy Flexibility to Reimagine and Modernize K-12 Education Post-COVID-19
Innovation zones represent an important policy lever states can use as K-12 reimagines its future post-COVID. Innovation zones are created through state legislation to give schools and districts freedom from burdensome administrative regulations....
Determining Attendance and Alternatives to Seat-Time
Attendance looks dramatically different in the COVID-19 era. Many states and districts have sent us requests to support the alignment of policy with a more innovative imagining of attendance that moves away from the old-fangled definition based on...
Strengthening Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Education: Strategies and Tools for Professional Learning
This report describes Vermont’s convenings to support schools, districts, and other education organizations seeking to create high-quality local comprehensive systems of assessments. It can serve as a resource for schools, districts, and states that...
Mere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement
School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend with the myriad challenges posed by COVID-19. In fact, they must reimagine what agency and engagement can look like in cases when students are...
Innovative Approaches to Learning Acceleration Within the Core of K-12 Instruction: Public Report from the Accelerating Adoption Network
To understand the implementation and impact of the 10 networks participating in FullScale’s Accelerating Adoption Network, Mathematica evaluated how the technology-enabled innovations accelerated student learning as they scaled. This final report...
From Distraction to Deeper Learning: How hardware keeps students engaged and connected
Artificial Intelligence (AI) currently sits at the center of most national conversations about education and technology. Although important, this narrow focus risks overlooking core foundational elements of the edtech environment, particularly...
From Early Adoption to Implementation and Scaling: Lessons for the Field from FullScale’s Accelerating Adoption Network
This brief shares lessons from the first year of the Accelerating Adoption Network, highlighting what it takes to move technology-enabled innovations from early adoption to sustained instructional impact at scale.
Career Exploration Fair Passport
The Career Exploration Fair Passport offers students a method for organizing notes about each business or CTE program encountered. The second page provides sample questions to ask, as well as color-coded tables related to the academies.