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Personalized Learning as a Strategy to Support Students During COVID-19: Mapping Education and Policy Trends by the Numbers
Based off proposals to U.S. Department of Education, states continue to look to personalized, competency-based learning practices for more flexibility.
Topics: Education Policy
Using Personalized, Competency-Based Learning to Address System Disruptions
How can schools improve the high school to post-secondary transition during a pandemic? ECS released six briefs to help conceptualize.
Topics: Education Policy
Behind the Scenes: Developing the State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning
See the 3 key decisions that helped shape The State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning.
Topics: Education Policy
Core Commitments for Quality Transformation to Personalized Learning
Read about four core commitments that state leaders should be mindful of for quality transformation to personalized learning.
New Resource on How States Are Using Federal Policy to Enable Students to Earn College Credits in High School
In "ESSA: State-by-State Analysis," the College in High School Alliance examines how each state has approached college in high school...
Supporting All Students: ESSA Plan Examples
Over the course of this blogging series, KnowledgeWorks’ policy team has discussed the prominent trends and leading states in maximizing...
How States Are Using Personalized Learning To Support All Students In Their ESSA Plans
Enthusiasm around the passage of Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) focused on a new opportunity to create education plans tailored...
Looking Beyond High School Graduation Rates to Understand College and Career Readiness
The nation’s education community must look at data beyond high school graduation rates to understand the full picture of college...
Topics: Education Policy
Why do teachers implement personalized learning?
Why do teachers implement personalized learning? Here are just a few of the reasons they they gave us.
Topics: Education Policy
Leading the Charge for Personalized Learning: Nine Teachers to Watch
We interviewed teachers across the nation about personalized learning. From all of our interviews, here are nine teachers we think...
Topics: Education Policy
The Shifting Paradigm of Teaching
In KnowledgeWorks' newest publication, teachers share their perspectives and experiences on personalized learning in the classroom.
The Shifting Paradigm of Teaching: Personalized Learning According to Teachers
The Shifting Paradigm of Teaching: Personalized Learning According to Teachers explores what drives educators to build personalized learning environments in...
Topics: 101, Assessment and Accountability, Building Capacity, Education Policy, Impact and Improvement, Overcoming Challenges, Vision and Culture
Trusting a flawed system
If takes a lot more effort to look at evidence of untrustworthiness and act on that effort than it takes...
A Winter Break Reading List for Every Mood
Sarah Jenkins shares a winter break reading list with a broad, social policy approach that includes options for the whole...
Topics: Education Policy
Policy Research from the Ground Up
We hit major bumps in education policy when we think that our echo chamber alone will create the transformation needed...
Topics: Education Policy
Why I’m Scared of the Future of Education
Is our system of education – and the politics surrounding it – innovating quickly enough to keep up with the...
Personalized Learning: From Occasional Success Story to System-Level Reality
we are creating tools for states and districts interested in fundamentally transforming learning and moving towards student-centered systems.
Topics: Education Policy
Rebuilding Education’s Future to Serve Students Rather Than Politics
In recent Twitter chats, so many individuals recognized that a more equitable system is needed, but similar to the JFF...
Stepping Into the Complex World of Education Data Systems
States like Virginia and New Hampshire understand that it is not really possible to actualize school improvement when data is...
Reading List: Cold Weather Edition
Now that the weather has finally decided to turn itself towards winter, reading lists are a must.
District Conditions for Scale: A Practical Guide to Scaling Personalized Learning©
What are the conditions that a K-12 school district should put in place to support the scaling of personalized learning?
Topics: Education Policy
When Success and Failure Look the Same
You don’t have to spend too much time in education to run into two often-frustrating facts: Too many children are...
Topics: Education Policy