Initially an in-person, local organization, My Reflection Matters launched its virtual “Village” platform in August 2020 to connect and support primarily Black, Indigenous, and People of Color families.
We need to rethink traditional models for teaching and learning. Finding ways to use the innovative technology of the 21st century can improve public education by maximizing teacher expertise, and creating new ways for parents to engage with their child’s schooling. Some technology can also create more flexible learning environments for students to receive curriculum and instruction tailored to their unique needs. Using these technologies in the classroom can greatly increase the efficiency of teaching, learning, and administration. Our work addresses policy barriers that make many of the most promising innovations impossible to implement.
Current Work: A Learning Agenda for Taking Personalized Learning to Scale
With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CRPE is conducting a multi-year, multi-method effort to learn about how school districts and regional partners can support the successful implementation, expansion, and sustainability of personalized learning (PL) in schools. CRPE researchers will use a combination of field studies, surveys, and secondary data analysis to explore how schools, districts, and partner organizations outside the school district help to seed and grow PL and with what results.
Key questions for the project include:
What do principals, teachers, and system leaders need to know and be able to do to successfully support, implement, and scale up PL?
What policies and practices, at the classroom, school, district, partnership, and state levels, offer important supports (and barriers) for successfully implementing and scaling up PL?
What are the early results for teachers and students?
Initially an in-person, local organization, My Reflection Matters launched its virtual “Village” platform in August 2020 to connect and support primarily Black, Indigenous, and People of Color families.
When the pandemic closed schools in Denver, an enterprising parent with community connections stepped in to meet immediate needs.
This brief provides a guide for education leaders and policymakers building a path to sustainable and quality virtual learning.
We will get through this (hopefully) final stage of the pandemic. But then what?
This brief highlights five key takeaways from ASDP’s research that have implications for state policy and practice.
School systems interested in better approaches to engaging the public must not start from scratch.
Over the past year, we worked with six high schools in New England to learn how they’re reimagining the high school experience.
Great Oaks Charter School Bridgeport in Connecticut offers an example of a high dosage tutoring model that has been refined and adapted to meet local needs.
Despite pandemic-induced challenges, Holyoke school leaders and staff kept student engagement at the forefront of their efforts to ensure continuity of learning.
As health and safety concerns recede, districts are under pressure to provide fewer days and hours of student-teacher contact than before the pandemic.
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