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Funding Structures to Support Personalized Learning

Funding strategies to address state needs while scaling innovative teaching and learning.

A Spectrum of Governance and Funding Structures

Insights into governance/finance structures supporting personalized, competency-based learning.

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Exploring Real-world Learning Ecosystems

Community-wide learning is a powerful reality for students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy

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Implementing Student-centered Learning Policies

Learn how Washington and Arkansas are implementing student-centered learning policies, structures and supports.

Jon Alfuth
Senior Director of State Policy

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Embracing the Shift: A Journey Toward Personalized Learning

An emphasis on agency and continuous growth and improvement is key to these districts’ shift to personalized, competency-based learning.

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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What Playful Learning and Personalized, Competency-based Learning Have in Common – and Why That Matters for Learners

A tour of playful learning spaces in South Philadelphia reveals the connections to personalized, competency-based learning.

A group of North Dakota educators sit around a table talking with papers and computers in front of them. One is speaking animatedly.

North Dakota’s Personalized Learning Journey Started Six Years Ago – and They’re Not Done Yet

Transformation doesn’t happen overnight. Learn how North Dakota supports and sustains personalized, competency-based learning practices through networks.

Student goals on the gallery wall at Mountainview Elementary School in Rio Rico, Arizona

What a Portrait of a Graduate Is – and How You Can Operationalize Them

A Portrait of a Graduate defined and some examples from learning communities

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Experiential Futures in Action: Class of 2034 Graduation Party

Experiential futures can help shift mindsets and bring a variety of perspectives. Here’s how we brought a potential future to life.

Maria Crabtree
Director of Strategic Foresight Projects

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Five Essentials for Collaborative Leadership

Advancing the shift towards authentic learning with collaboration and what it takes to lead these efforts effectively

Simone Daley
Senior Manager of Network Engagement

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123 Not ABC: Measuring Mastery at Kenowa Hills

At the Early Childhood Center in Kenowa Hills, Michigan, posters help explain proficiency grading levels.

Emily Smith
Senior Director of Network Advancement

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Why – and How – Educators Learn Best from Each Other

Learning communities across the country share what drives educators in peer learning opportunities.

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