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Aurora Institute's 2022 State Policy Priorities
The Aurora Institute's new broad-based policy agenda issues a call-to-action for state education policymakers and provides twelve recommendations informed by the wisdom and expertise of more than 8,500 members in its community. Taken together, the...
Artifacts
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....
Examples From The Field
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.
Examples From The Field
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
Strategies
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.
Strategies
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.
Strategies
Advice: Establish a statewide vision and plan
Three states share their approach to developing a statewide vision for innovation in education.
Strategies
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...
Strategies
Cisco ISD’s Redesign Process
Cisco ISD has been highly intentional about how it is trying to improve teaching and learning for its students.
Teaching Practices
Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience: How flexible should our district strategy be over time?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Virtual, Outcomes-Based Contract Tutoring
Ector County Independent School District is currently piloting outcomes-based tutoring with a virtual tutoring company at the district’s lowest-performing middle school. The district targeted 40 of its highest-need students that will be provided...
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