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Examples From The Field
ReNEW DTA Academy
ReNEW’s Dolores T. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) is a charter school serving students in pre-K through 8th grade in New Orleans, LA that has developed a mastery-based, 8th grade math program.
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Summative and Formative Assessments at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, discusses how the team uses different types of assessment to gauge mastery and retention of skills. Sophia Thomas: I was involved in creating the summative assessment. We, as a team, came together. At first, we...
Strategies
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...
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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,...
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...
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New England Board of Education Policy Spotlight: How Selective Colleges and Universities Evaluate Proficiency-Based High School Transcripts: Insights for Students and Schools
New England Board of Education position paper on mastery-based transcripts and college admissions that confirms there is no cause for concern for students with non-traditional transcripts as long as schools provide some basic information and context...
Examples From The Field
Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor Collegiate Academies consist of two public charter schools in Nashville, TN, serving students in grades 5-8. Their instructional model includes a blended and personalized math class, as well as a large emphasis on student social and emotional...
Strategies
Assessment Labs
Students take assessments and work through online work in large classrooms.
Strategies
District Support for Schools Shifting to Personalized Learning
Henry County Schools provides monetary support, invests in people, and takes time to talk through issues and challenges of transitioning to personalized learning.
Strategies
Locust Grove Middle School’s Shift to Personalized Learning
Locust Grove collected information from a lot of sources to help inform the “why” and the “what” of their personalized learning efforts.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Storytelling Built to Engage Community Stakeholders
Most schools and districts have a specific communications strategy built-in to their yearly calendar; however, many of these schools and districts need to work on the storytelling they use in order to leverage communication strategies more...
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