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Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students: 2009-10
This report provides national estimates about student enrollment in distance education courses in public school districts. Estimates are based on district surveys during the 12-month 2009-10 school year. Specifically, the survey covered the...
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online and Blended Learning, 9th Edition
Four themes that Keeping Pace 2011 introduced largely hold true a year later, with some updates for 2012: Many states have created or allowed some online and blended learning opportunities, but no state has yet created or allowed a full range of...
Transforming K-12 Rural Education through Blended Learning: Barriers and Promising Practices
This report describes the implementation of blended learning programs in Idaho, and three key takeaways are apparent: Blended learning has a positive impact on teachers.Self-pacing enables students to take ownership and achieve mastery.Teachers...
Onboarding New Blended Teachers - Design Studio Agenda (January 2017)
Cisco educators new to blended learning attended a design studio hosted by the Raising Blended Learners initiative. This agenda shows the topics and activities covered during that studio.
Aligning K-12 State Policy with Competency Education
This CompetencyWorks brief provides an introduction to competency education with a snapshot of states’ policies regarding competency education. The report notes how states are advancing competency-based learning, and it describes eight ways that...
Aligning K-12 Federal Policy with Competency Education
This CompetencyWorks brief provides an introduction to competency education and insight into how federal policy can remove barriers and catalyze competency education. The report provides a snapshot of competency-based state policy throughout the...
Measuring Forward: Emerging Trends in K-12 Assessment Innovation
A significant movement is underway across the nation to design K-12 assessment systems that better equip stakeholders to provide an equitable and excellent education to each child. While some of these innovations emerged before the pandemic, the...
How to Transform Your Learning Environments for COVID-19
Design firm Sasaki provides ideas of how to change classroom layouts to keep students and staff members safe for in-person instruction.
Communication Resources for Schools at a Time of COVID-19 & Beyond
This resource from Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools and the Donovan Group provides template and guidance to promote honest, transparent, equitable, freely accessible and public health-informed communication. The hope is that this resource helps...
A Summary of Research on the Effectiveness of K-12 Online Learning
This memo examines the outcomes of existing studies on K-12 learning effectiveness, and it provides a literature review of these studies. A number of rigorous studies have asked the question, “Is online learning effective?” However, there is not a...
The iNACOL State Policy Frameworks 2015: 5 Critical Issues to Transform K-12 Education
This policy brief highlights opportunities for states to close achievement gaps and enable highly personalized pathways, and provides concrete, actionable recommendations for state policymakers around five key issues: Create Competency-Based...