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Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015, which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), ushered in a historic opportunity to rethink K-12 education across the country.3 The new law allows...
Promising State Policies to Advance Personalized Learning
iNACOL published the report Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning to highlight specific state examples of promising policies to support and scale personalized, competency-based learning to close equity and achievement gaps. This...
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....
How to Spark Education Innovation in Your State
Watch this strategy session from the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s National Summit 2015 to see experts discuss the differences between innovative education models and explore a range of policies and steps toward implementation states can...
State Profiles in Innovation
Produced by Innovation Partners America in partnership with The Learning Accelerator, State Profiles in Innovation: How Four States Are Advancing Blended and Personalized Learning Statewide, features profiles of state actors who are on the leading...
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.
Delaware’s Student Success 2025
Student Success 2025 is a student-centered, 10-year plan produced by the Vision Coalition and developed from the input of 4,000 Delawareans, including 1,300 Delaware students and recent graduates. The plan contains multiple recommendations including...
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.
Ease of Doing Business Assessment
State leaders can use this tool to rate the presence or absence of eight key conditions that illuminate the ‘ease of doing work’ within a particular jurisdiction to cultivate and accelerate statewide blended learning.
So You Think You Want To Innovate?
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.