Results: P-12 (65 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
Don’t underestimate the Force.
Testing District, ColoradoP-12Higher & Adult Ed
Don't act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you. No! Alderaan is peaceful. We have no weapons. You can't possibly… You are a part of the Rebe...
Topic: testing
Apple pie sweet chocolate bonbon
Testing District, GeorgiaP-12
Gummies cake donut jelly-o. Jelly beans powder donut cotton candy. Biscuit fruitcake bear claw. Pastry chocolate bar sweet roll tootsie roll toffee sweet tiramisu. Toffee jelly-o marshmallow ice cream oat cake. Powder cookie pie dessert apple pie dessert candy cheesecake. Icing lollipop icing. Tir...
Topic: testing
Gummi bears chocolate croissant cookie
Testing District, AlaskaP-12
Sweet lollipop dragée candy canes icing. Gummies cupcake gummi bears tart jelly beans sweet. Cotton candy gummi bears dragée brownie lollipop. Icing lemon drops cheesecake liquorice gingerbread sugar plum carrot cake muffin. Bonbon cotton candy chupa chups. Cake liquorice brownie biscuit macaroo...
Bear Creek Middle School: Professional Learning for Effective 1:1 Implementation
Fulton County Georgia, GeorgiaP-12
Background Bear Creek Middle School—located just south of Atlanta, Georgia, in the Fulton County School District—just completed the 2nd year of its 1:1 device initiative, which provides over 1,100 students with new electronic digital devices. In December 2014, as the result of a Fulton Count...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, digital citizenship, professional learning
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...
Hollister R-V School District: OER Ambassadors in Rural Missouri
Hollister R-V School District, MissouriP-12
Hollister R-V School District, in Missouri, underwent sweeping changes to their curriculum ten years ago when use of Openly Licensed Educational Resources (OER) was implemented by its administration, and teachers were asked to phase out the use of textbooks. Although curated OER is readily available...
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
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School: Using OER to Scale High-Quality Personalized Learning
Brooklyn, New YorkP-12
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (LAB), a network of open-enrollment, college-preparatory, public charter schools in downtown Brooklyn, New York, is dedicated to serving the highest need students regardless of academic level, English language proficiency, or disability. LAB has leveraged its resou...
Topics: Openly Licensed Educational Resources, personalized learning
Bristol Tennessee City Schools: Personalized Educator Learning Provides Foundation for Personalized Student Learning
Bristol City School District, TennesseeP-12
Bristol Tennessee City Schools has just over 4,000 students enrolled in five elementary schools, a single middle school, one brick-and-mortar high school, and a virtual high school. The district’s free and reduced lunch rate is just over 53%; the rate at some of the four Title I schools is signifi...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, personalized learning, professional 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
Lawrence Public Schools: Team Approach to #GoOpen
Lawrence Public Schools, KansasP-12
With a focus on its Excellence, Equity and Engagement goals, Lawrence USD 497 has earned a reputation for offering students an exceptional educational experience. The district serves roughly 11,000 students among fourteen elementary schools, four middle schools, two high schools, and two virtual sch...
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
Columbus Municipal School District: From Textbooks to Tech
Columbus Municipal School District, MississippiP-12
The CMSD #GoOpen journey began about a year and a half ago, and was prompted by the realization that our outdated textbooks were no longer adequate to meet the needs of each student and to ensure that every student in our district succeeds. CMSD realized that not only did these textbooks fail to mee...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Bristol Tennessee City Schools: From Obstacles to Opportunities Through Digital Learning Conversion
Bristol Tennessee City Schools, TennesseeP-12
Bristol Tennessee City Schools has just over 4,000 students enrolled among five elementary schools, a single middle school, one brick-and-mortar high school, and a virtual high school. The district's free and reduced lunch rate is just over 53%, with the rate at some of the four Title I schools sign...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources, professional learning
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
How Williamsfield schools decided to #GoOpen
Williamsfield Community School District, IllinoisP-12
The Williamsfield School District is a small, rural district serving approximately 300 students in one building—Pre-K through 12th grade—with fewer than 100 students attending the high school. Located in a village of 650 residents, the school is the hub of the community. Several staff and facult...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, equity, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
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
STEM Classes and Beyond
School District of Philadelphia & Franklin Institute, PennsylvaniaP-12
The Science Leadership Academy is a partnership high school between the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute. SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st century learning that opened its doors on September 7, 2006. SLA provides a rigorous, college-prepa...
Topic: 1:1 Initiative
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
21st Century Learning Systems
Howard-Winneshiek Community School District, IowaP-12
The Howard-Winneshiek Community School District is a 426 square mile, rural NE Iowa district of 1.200+ students with 48% Free and Reduced lunch. The Challenge Howard-Winneshiek faces several challenges. Like much of rural Iowa and America, declining enrollment and budget concerns along with affordab...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, community engagement
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...
#Playdate at Professional Development
Chicago Public Schools, IllinoisP-12
Chicago Public Schools is the third largest school district in the US with over 500 schools and over 300,000 students. 86% of those students are economically disadvantaged. This event started in CPS and has grown internationally. The Challenge It is difficult for teachers to find time to attend fu...
Topics: professional learning, strategic planning
Makerspaces
Liberty Elementary School, MarylandP-12
Liberty Elementary School is a small elementary school is Northwest Baltimore supporting 442 students. Their school population is 100% African American and 93.55 of students qualify for Federal Free and/or Reduced Meals. Liberty Elementary School is a traditional, community-based, public school in t...
Topic: equity
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
Warsaw Inquiry Learning Laboratory
Warsaw Community Schools, IndianaP-12
Warsaw Community Schools (WCS) is a rural school corporation of 7200 students located in northern Indiana. The school corporation has 52% free and reduced population, and a 20% English Language Learner population. Warsaw is known as the Orthopedic Manufacturing Capital of the World, the duck farming...
Topics: community engagement, equity
Beginning a Take-home 1:1 Program
Warsaw Community Schools, IndianaP-12
Warsaw Community Schools (WCS) is a rural school corporation of 7200 students located in northern Indiana. The school corporation has 52% free and reduced population, and a 20% English Language Learner population. Warsaw is known as the Orthopedic Manufacturing Capital of the World, the duck farming...
Topics: 1:1 intiatives, professional learning
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
Strategic Blueprint 2.0 for Digital Learning
Baltimore County Public Schools, MarylandP-12
Baltimore County Public Schools is the third largest school district in Maryland and the twenty-fifth largest district in the country. It serves a diverse population close to 110,000 students across 173 schools, programs, and centers. In October 2014, BCPS received one of only 15 national Digital In...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, equity
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
Wanted: A Bandwidth Upgrade
South Wasco County School District, OregonP-12
South Wasco County School District is a small, rural district encompassing all 600,000 acres of southern Wasco County in Maupin, Oregon. The district is comprised of two schools that pull from many neighboring small communities, totaling around 200 students in all. Despite its small size, the distri...
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
A Bold Vision for Instruction Should Ignite the Move to 1:1
Goochland County Public Schools, VirginiaP-12
Goochland County Public Schools is a small, rural public school division in Virginia with around 2,400 students across 5 schools.They are positioned along the James River midway between Charlottesville to the west and Richmond to the east. Over the past two years significant investments have been ma...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, personalized learning
Innovative Learning Environments
Clarke County School District, GeorgiaP-12
With 21 schools and over 12,000 students, the Clarke County School District offers students a diverse learning environment that propels them to academic success. Thirty-four native languages are spoken and students graduate with a deep cultural awareness—giving them an edge in today’s global soc...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, accessibility, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Embracing the Power of Digital Learning
Sitka School District, AlaskaP-12
The Sitka School District is a K-12 public school district serving 1,300 students who live in Sitka, Alaska. There are 5 schools in the Sitka School District - 2 elementary schools with 1 school serving students in grades K-1 and the other serving students in grades 2-5, 1 middle school serving stud...
Topics: community engagement, Connectivity, technology infrastructure
