Innovating State Policy
Working at the state and federal levels, KnowledgeWorks partners with policymakers, educators and business and community leaders to develop a vision for student-centered systems transformation.
At KnowledgeWorks, we help state policymakers design education systems where each student benefits from high-quality personalized learning experiences that prepare them to thrive in postsecondary, the workforce and in their communities. Our comprehensive policy approach centers the student, emphasizing systems redesign aligned to personalized, competency-based learning.
A state policy framework that works
KnowledgeWorks created the first state policy framework for personalized learning a decade ago, inspiring nationwide trends in policymaking. Our second edition builds on feedback from policymakers, state leaders and education leaders to streamline content, offer more examples and include recommendations to help policymakers partner with the field to maximize the impact of policy change.
Policy Conditions for Personalized Learning
Designing education policy solutions with you
Our collaborative engagements with policymakers and education stakeholders across the country shape our expertise, enabling KnowledgeWorks to advance equitable and sustainable policy solutions at every level of the education system. Our team helps policymakers advance their vision by cultivating shared ownership among a range of stakeholders, identifying policy barriers and opportunities, realigning systems around a shared vision, and designing implementation strategies to ensure the field maximizes policy change to reimagine teaching and learning systems.
Here’s what we offer:
- Policy opportunity analysis: KnowledgeWorks thoroughly analyzes current state policies that may support or hinder personalized, competency-based learning and provides recommendations for policy change that could grow, deepen and sustain the work.
- Policy strategy guide: Through facilitation of diverse state perspectives, KnowledgeWorks partners with state leaders to craft a strategy guide that prioritizes policy recommendations and presents a strategic plan to help states and communities move from ideas to action.
- Customized technical assistance: KnowledgeWorks partners with state policymakers to provide technical policy support including facilitation of policy working groups, developing policy briefs and memos, crafting policy agendas and drafting legislation or regulations.
- Policy innovation guides: Once policies are enacted, KnowledgeWorks partners with visionary state and district leaders to create innovation guides that highlight possibilities for educational transformation. District profiles show what is possible and descriptions of policy flexibilities identify the lever for change.
Mapping legislative trends
As legislators work to innovate their education policy systems, KnowledgeWorks tracks bills and analyzes trends in education policy aligned to the policy conditions from our state policy framework for personalized learning.
Tracking Legislation
Personalizing Education Policy
Work with us to ensure your state is crafting and implementing policies that empower schools and districts to evolve and develop student-centered learning approaches.
