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Celebrating Success: A Snapshot of Edtech Procurement in Houston
Technology purchasing at scale can be difficult. The possible pitfalls are many, and cash-strapped education institutions are generally less equipped than most to navigate the intricacies of a major purchase of devices. As the trend toward blended...
Tapping into Teachers: Mobilizing and Learning from the Front Line of Blended Practice
I grew up in a continuous improvement household. Both of my parents - in their own ways and professions - were pretty obsessed with efficiency and management, so our familial commitment to systems-thinking and optimization ran deep. My ‘80s...
Leveraging the Core Budget to Change America's Schools
Across Reynoldsburg City School District (RCS), personalized learning is increasingly achieved at the classroom and individual student level through the shift to blended learning. Blended learning requires a fundamental redesign of instructional and...
Step #1 in District-wide Blended Learning Implementation: Assess Stakeholder Readiness
There are many steps on the path to implementing blended learning in school districts. In their enthusiasm to hit the ground running, district leaders may overlook a critical first step, one that can fundamentally impact the success of the entire...
Investing in Autonomy, Performance, and Innovation
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...
Could local innovation networks be a key to adopting blended learning?
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...
Digital Learning Now! Releases Smart Series Guide to EdTech Procurement
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...
Digital Learning Now! Releases Smart Series Guide to Edtech Procurement
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...
What Role Should States Play in the Shift to Personalized Learning?
New tools and school models present a historic opportunity to better prepare young people for college, careers, and citizenship. It’s not unreasonable to think that we could double the percentage of well-prepared teens before the end of the decade....
Blended Learning Implementation 2.0 Released
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...
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