Results: Suburban (41 Stories)
She must have hidden the plans in the escape pod.
Testing District, ArizonaP-12
What good is a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that battle station ain't my idea of courage. It's more like…suicide. Still, she's got a lot of spirit. I don't know, what do you think? Hey, Luke! May the Force be with you. You don't believe in the Force, do you? ...
Topic: testing
Partially, but it also obeys your commands.
Testing District, GeorgiaHigher & Adult Ed
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything.
Topic: testing
Carlsbad Unified School District Story: Implementing OER Step-by-Step
Carlsbad Unified School District, CaliforniaP-12
Prior to arriving in San Diego County, Dr. Benjamin Churchill, superintendent of Carlsbad Unified School District, had only known #GoOpen second-hand from posts trending on Twitter. When Dr. Churchill arrived to the Southern California region, he learned that over 10 districts in the region were par...
Lewis Central Community Schools: Collaboration Brings Cohesion to a District’s Transformation
Lewis Central Community Schools, IowaP-12
When Lewis Central Community Schools, a district of K-12 schools located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, first considered adopting openly licensed educational resources (OER), they planned to use them to replace an outdated set of textbooks at the high school level. Teachers and students commented that the...
Broken Arrow Public Schools: Using OER to Improve Quality and Tackle Challenges
Broken Arrow Public Schools, OklahomaP-12
Broken Arrow Public Schools, in Oklahoma, serve more than 18,000 students with a mission to “educate, equip, and empower a community of learners by providing dynamic learning opportunities which enable all students to be successful.” However, the district was dealt a substantial blow when their ...
The Metropolitan School District of Warren Township: Personalizing Learning by Redefining Where and When Students Learn
Metropolitan School District of Warren Township, IndianaP-12
Serving over 12,000 students in Indiana, the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township’s mission is to prepare its students “to be self-directed learners who are literate, creative, curious, civic-minded citizens who do meaningful work in school and life beyond school.” As part of the U....
Topic: personalized learning
Fox Chapel Area School District: From the Bottom Up
Fox Chapel Area School District, PennsylvaniaP-12
With its mission to “maximize student learning, achievement, and development,” the Fox Chapel Area School District in Pennsylvania strives to become one of the top-performing public school districts in the country -- a daunting task for any district. In 2012, Fox Chapel created a strategic plan ...
Puyallup School District: Investment in Teachers
Puyallup School District, WashingtonP-12
Like many school districts around the country, Puyallup School District in Washington, has a strong desire to provide the highest quality education for students with an emphasis on equity and social justice. With the recognition of dwindling resources, the school board tasked the district to evaluat...
Highline Public Schools: Personalized Learning as a Pathway to Equity
Highline Public Schools, WashingtonP-12
Highline Public Schools is a richly diverse school district located just south of Seattle that serves over 20,000 students. The district’s promise to families, students, and the community is that every student is known by name, strength and need, and graduates prepared for college, career and citi...
Topic: personalized learning
Leading with Professional Learning: Liberty Public Schools
Liberty Public Schools, MissouriP-12
Liberty’s systemic approach to implementing openly licensed educational resources started with making the decision a year ahead about which textbooks and instructional materials would be replaced by openly licensed educational resources. The district also developed a strategy for implementing inte...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources, professional learning
Clark County School District: OER from a Development Perspective
Clark County School District, NevadaP-12
Clark County (NV) School District (CCSD) is the fifth largest district in the nation, with over 318,000 students. CCSD was prompted to #GoOpen because the size of the district makes it cost prohibitive to purchase licensed software for mass distribution. With the goal of having 100,000 students in a...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Transparency in Technology: Vista Unified School District’s Transition to Digital Learning
Vista Unified School District, CaliforniaP-12
Vista Unified School District serves a diverse population of students, including more than 3,000 in special education programs and more than 6,000 who are English Learners. Enrollment has declined over the last several years from about 26,000 students in 2000 to about 22,000 in 2012. Vista Unified ...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Partnerships for Progress: Mentor Public Schools’ #GoOpen Story
Mentor Public Schools, OhioP-12
Mentor Public Schools has spent the past four years rethinking and revitalizing the instructional program for our students. Focusing on balancing the instructional methods available to our educators has allowed the district to move the student experience toward a scenario where the best possible tec...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Collaboration Supports OER at Fallbrook Union Elementary School District
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District, CaliforniaP-12
The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District, located in north San Diego County, serves approximately 5,200 kindergarten through eighth grade students in eight schools. The geographical boundaries of FUESD contribute to the unique population it serves. Stretching from the I-15 corridor to the Pac...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Collaboration is Key: Natick Public Schools’ #GoOpen Journey
Natick Public Schools, MassachusettsP-12
Natick Public Schools is a suburban school district located southwest of Boston. The school community has about 5,400 students and 600 educators. Grace Magley is the Director of Online learning in Natick, and her office was established to strengthen and deepen the district’s implementation of dig...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Coronado Unified School District’s #GoOpen Movement to Support Learner-Centric Teaching
Coronado Unified School District, CaliforniaP-12
CUSD was motivated to #GoOpen because the learner has changed. “Students have a pervasive mindset of personalization. Personalization of clothing, communication devices, and food has become expected in the marketplace...so why not in our schools?” acknowledged Superintendent Dr. Jeffrey Felix. S...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Chesterfield County Public Schools: Integrated OER for Instructional Achievement
Chesterfield County Public Schools, VirginiaP-12
The Chesterfield County Public Schools vision for the future is preparing every student to adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. The district sees committing to #GoOpen as a natural extension of the work underway in implementing its strategic plan, Design for Excellence 2020. One of the p...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources, strategic planning
Embedding Computer Programming into Curriculum
South Fayette Township School District, Pennsylvania
The South Fayette Township School District is a tax-exempt public school system in South Western PA with a current enrollment of 2886 students. South Fayette School District is the fastest growing school district in the state of Pennsylvania and highest-ranking school district in Allegheny County. T...
Professional Learning for Gifted Clusters
Dysart Unified School District, ArizonaP-12
The Dysart Unified School District serves nearly 26,000 students in the communities of Surprise and El Mirage, Arizona. We are a community dedicated to serving the needs of all children with high quality educational services, before-and after-school programs, community education classes, and service...
Beyond Textbooks
Vail Unified School District, ArizonaP-12
The Vail Unified School District is a K-12 district that encompasses a large geographic area to the southeast of Tucson, Arizona serving over 12,000 students attending 18 schools. The Challenge In the early 2000’s Vail improved in the state standings academically and leaders began to reflect on t...
Topics: Openly Licensed Educational Resources, strategic planning
Focus on Deliberate Practices
FloridaP-12
R. L. Stevenson Elementary a K–6 school located in Merritt Island, Florida has a student population of nearly 500 and is part of Brevard Public Schools, a district that educates over 70,000 students in 17 different municipalities across the Florida coast. The Challenge Long before Principal Mich...
Topics: professional learning, strategic planning, teacher leadership
How do we support and motivate teachers?
Vista Unified School District, CaliforniaP-12Higher & Adult Ed
Vista Unified School District was formed in 1936 and now has 29 schools serving more than 22,000 students from preschool to 12th grade. Vista Unified School District is one of northern San Diego County’s largest educational agencies. The district stretches 39 square miles across most of Vista, a l...
Shoulder to Shoulder Training Models
Vista Unified School District, CaliforniaP-12Higher & Adult Ed
Vista Unified School District was formed in 1936 and now has 29 schools serving more than 22,000 students from preschool to adult. The district stretches 39 square miles across most of Vista, a large portion of eastern Oceanside, some unincorporated areas and small slivers of Carlsbad and San Marcos...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, professional learning
Innovation Cohorts
Affton School District, MissouriP-12
Affton School District serves a diverse population of 2500 learners in South Saint Louis, Missouri. It focuses on innovation, rich curriculum, and continuous improvement to meet the needs of its unique population of working class families from a wide variety of countries including Bosnia, Serbia, an...
Topics: community engagement, infrastructure
Tech Savvy and Literate Students
Highline School District, WashingtonP-12
Midway Elementary School is a K-6 school in the Highline School District. There are 18 elementary schools in the district. It has a population of 640 students with approximately 44% ELL population, 90% Free and Reduced Meal Program, 54% Latino and less than 10% white. The Challenge Being able to per...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, accessibility, community engagement
Planning for rapid growth
McAllen Independent School District, TexasP-12
McAllen Independent School District is located in a fast-growing, diverse community just five miles from the U.S. border. The district encompasses thirty-three campuses across the Rio Grande Valley, with about 30,000 students, teachers, and employees. McAllen is one of the country’s fastest growin...
Topics: Connectivity, technology infrastructure
Partnering to Increase Bandwidth
Iowa City Community School District , IowaP-12
Iowa City Community School District is the fifth largest school district in the state, with a population of over 12,000 students across a total of 42 schools. Approximately 40 different languages are spoken across the district, which spans 133 square miles across the city. The Challenge Iowa City ...
Topics: Connectivity, technology infrastructure
Upgrading the Network Infrastructure
Boulder Valley School District, ColoradoP-12
Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District is consistently ranked among the top three of the state’s large Front Range districts. Situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the district contains fifty-six schools over 500 square miles, serving approximately 30,000 students in grades K-12. ...
Topics: Connectivity, technology infrastructure
UpGrade Assessments
Centennial, ColoradoP-12
Anastasis Academy is a small, independent pre-8th grade school in Centennial, Colorado working to become a model that will transform education. Anastasis' ambition is to apprentice children in the art of learning through inquiry, creativity, critical thinking, discernment, and wisdom. They strive to...
Topic: strategic planning
Preparing Children for the Global Economy
Gurnee School District 56, IllinoisP-12
Gurnee, IL is a small suburban community nestled between Chicago and Milwaukee. Gurnee School District 56 serves three other communities in addition to Gurnee: Wadsworth, Waukegan, and Beach Park. The school district is made up of four schools: River Trail (K-8 Building), Prairie Trail (3-5 Intermed...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, strategic planning
