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Managing Uncertainties Around Funding in Mid-Sized Systems
Afton Partners has anonymized and shared a simple 12-month cash flow projection tool, allowing school networks (like the charter management organization [CMO] highlighted in this case) to project cash every month by leveraging the organization’s...
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...
Financing to Scale Blended Learning Summary
A slide deck (PDF) that explores key financial planning steps for funding blended learning at scale, including key cost variables, cost drivers, and funding sources.
Guide: District Financing to Scale Blended Learning
Overview of the importance of creating a multi-year financial plan for scaling blended learning, average cost driver information from various examples, and exemplar funding levers districts are using to pay for this work.
Financial Planning in the Time of COVID-19
Three concrete tools, contextualized in case studies that leaders can use as they finish the 2020-21 school year and begin financial planning for the 2021-22 school year for school systems and CMOs.
Trailblazer Elementary School
Trailblazer Elementary School serves K-5 students in Colorado Springs School District 11, infusing competency development, personalized learning and collaboration to provide real world learning opportunities for students.
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
Change Management at Trailblazer Elementary
Trailblazer has created a strategic plan to ensure successful change management with the adoption of blended learning and competency-based learning practices.
Advice: Establish a statewide vision and plan
Three states share their approach to developing a statewide vision for innovation in education.
ESH State Partnership Program
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...
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...