Most districts put “innovation” at the top of their agendas these days, but too few are innovating with a purpose. The Reynoldsburg City School District (RCS) is becoming an exemplar for how to unleash principals’ and teachers’ creativity in meaningful ways that are guided but not prescribed or limited by a central office agenda. Across […]
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School reforms are often recognized as successful when champions are able to package their essential elements for easy implementation in various environments—this is what grant-makers sometimes call “scale and spread,” or what reformers sometimes cynically call “innovation-in-a-box.” Trying to package all of blended learning as a set of market-ready models, however, isn’t possible just yet—and
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup: Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Lead Multi-Year Philanthropic Investment to Connect Every K-12 Student San Francisco – December 4, 2013 – EducationSuperHighway, the nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing high speed broadband to the nation’s K-12 public schools, today announced that it is launching a comprehensive national effort to upgrade
White Paper Provides Guidance for Edtech Purchasing for District and State Leaders WASHINGTON (January 15, 2014) – Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national initiative of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), today released the 10th white paper in the DLN Smart Series in association with Getting Smart. Titled “Smart Series Guide to Edtech Procurement,”
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Three Leading Organizations Partner to Release Updated Version of Blended Learning Guide Seattle, Wash. – September 25, 2013 – Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national initiative under the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), in association with Getting Smart and The Learning Accelerator (TLA), today released “Blended Learning Implementation Guide Version 2.0.” The updated white
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San Francisco, CA – March 11, 2013 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization based in the Bay Area, has received a $5 million grant from the Jaquelin Hume Foundation to jump start the implementation of blended learning in the nation’s schools. “This is the biggest grant the Foundation has ever made and the
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Cupertino, CA – February 15, 2013 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts, today announced a grant of $500,000 to EducationSuperHighway (ESH). ESH is a nonprofit whose mission is to upgrade America’s K-12 internet infrastructure and provide every school in the country access to
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Partnership offers a real-time view into educational transformation Cupertino, CA – August 14, 2013 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts across America, today announced its first full district-wide implementation with the Reynoldsburg City School District in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. “We are excited to be
New nonprofit to promote blended learning in school districts Cupertino, CA – January 9, 2013 – The Learning Accelerator, a new nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of blended learning in school districts, announced that it has received a $750,000 operating grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “This early stage funding ensures the effective
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Greeley-Evans School District 6 will personalize learning through effective use of technology Cupertino, CA – March 19, 2014 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts across America, today announced a district-wide implementation partnership with Greeley-Evans School District 6 in Colorado. The partnership will also
