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Strategies
Guide: Transformative Budgeting for Digital Learning
This guide intended to assist districts in rethinking traditional budgetary approaches in order to find possible ways to fund technology initiatives by repurposing existing funding sources. The paper offers step-by-step advice through investigation,...
Strategies
Pleasant View’s Journey to Blended Learning
Pleasant View Elementary carefully planned which components of its program it most wanted to change through blended learning, then adjusted to challenges and scaling as needed.
Strategies
Communal Practice Affirming Personal, Interpersonal, and Community Development
Valor students participate in a weekly “Circle” exercise, during which they work to improve themselves, their community, and their relationships with others.
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Incorporating Expressions of Gratitude into the School Day
Valor students (and staff) frequently show gratitude and appreciation for an action of another participant.
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1:1 Devices at Locust Grove
Locust Grove recently provided moved from students sharing devices to each student having their own. This is the story of how they did it.
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Implementing Learner Profiles
Learner profiles are one of the core tenets of Henry County School District’s approach to personalization. Locust Grove is gradually starting to use them more and more.
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Creating Competencies for Mastery-Based Learning
In order to truly individualize learning for each of its students, Bronx Arena felt it needed to create its own competencies that align with its instructional approach.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
Teaching Practices
Share Best Practices vs. Share Process/Failures: How might practitioners best learn from one another? What should we be cataloguing and sharing throughout the district?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of sharing “best practices” versus sharing our processes and failures, and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Teaching Practices
“Fast and Furious” vs. “Slow and Steady”: How fast should we be moving from pilot to scale? What will help us best achieve sustainability?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.
Strategies
Building Routines, Systems, and Habits of Mind Before Personalizing Learning
How to cultivate the underlying skills that will help both teachers and students engage productively in a personalized learning environment.
