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Advice: Policies to Support Competency-Based Learning
State leaders must align policies to support transformation. This policy brief provides multiple concrete, actionable recommendations for state policymakers including those for creating competency-based education systems.
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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...
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Massachusetts Opportunity to Lead: Unleashing Innovation
Commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, The New Opportunity to Lead provides a rationale and design for a statewide innovation capacity-building initiative comprised of three ideas: Investing in a new technology bond,...
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TLA Snapshot: The Middletown Learning Path
This report highlights one example of how a district in New York is innovating around the use of Open Educational Resources, including links, resources and key takeaways.
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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...
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Advice: Vision First, Facilities Second
Many educators are redesigning their physical spaces alongside their instructional approaches. New physical space designs should be driven, first and foremost, by visions for blended and personalized learning.
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Guide to Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum
This guide, produced in 2016, offers advice for leaders and educators on how to evaluate and select digital content and curriculum.
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Guide: Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum
This guide provides advice on how districts can move from selecting print content to identifying and obtaining high-quality digital content appropriately aligned with state-adopted standards.
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Advice: Common Sense Education
Common Sense Education provides lesson plans, interactive games, professional development, and family education around digital citizenship.
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Personalized Learning Coaching and Development Rubric
This Personalized Learning Coaching and Development Rubric (PL Toolbox) from Dallas ISD maps out clear competency strands, identifies ways to show mastery in practice, and observational guides to drive meaningful reflection and discussions. This...
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Guide: Personalized PD at Dallas ISD
This Personalized Learning Coaching and Development Tool (PL Toolbox) from Dallas ISD maps out clear competency strands, identifies ways to show mastery in practice, and observational guides to drive meaningful reflection and discussions. This tool...
