102 public school districts from around the country of the most forward-thinking leaders of the nation's schools districts
What is The League of Innovative Schools?
Topic-based professional learning groups that meet once a month to share best practices
What are Cohorts?
A project to map and connect place-based education ecosystems across the country, supported by the Education Funder Strategy Group.
What is the "Locating and Linking Places" project with the Partnership for the Future of Learning?
The number of Challenge Collaboratives
What is 5?
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Who is Kim Smith?
Regional ecosystems that bring together educators, researchers, entrepreneurs, and other community stakeholders to advance transformative teaching and learning in their region.
What are Education Innovation Clusters?
Field trips to regions to see innovation-in-action with at districts, organizations, businesses, and other sites.
What are Study Tours?
A festival of experiential learning events for learners and their families in regions across the country, supported by PBS Kids, Digital Promise, and Remake Learning.
What is Remake Learning Days Across America?
Project where 12 districts are creating and scaling opportunities for students to have experiences outside of school
What is Real World Learning?
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Who is Cricket Fuller?
A network of over 400 single-site charter school leaders of color whose schools reflect the students and cultural fabric of their communities (Being incubated within Digital Promise)
What is the National Charter Collaborative?
Practitioner-led R&D projects that seek to solve big challenges in education work in partnership with researchers
What are Challenge Collaboratives?
An event happing in Pittsburgh, September 24-26, 2019
What is the 2019 Education Innovation Clusters convening, co-hosted with the Remake Learning Network?
K-12 progressions that school districts are creating for all students to access computer science
What is Computational Thinking Pathways?
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Who is My Nguyen?
Galvanize networks to design, validate, champion, and scale effective, innovative learning opportunities to advance equity and excellence for every learner.
What is the vision of the League/EdClusters initiatives?
Bi-annual gatherings of superintendents and district leaders to (party) network, share best practices and learn about new programming
What are League of Innovative Schools meetings?
First EdCluster that who has singed an MOU to be a League Affiliate Network.
What is LearnLaunch and MAPLE, the Massachusetts Personalized Learning EdTech Consortium?
Project develop open educational resources to support deeper learning around Middle School NGSS
What is OER for Deeper Learning and NGSS?
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Who is Vina Vo?
Platform where League districts and Education Innovation Clusters can showcase their work, partners, and stories
What are Innovation Portfolios?
Daily Double: List the sites for the all the upcoming League meetings through 2021.
Fall 2020 - Northern Virginia and DC (Loudoun County)
Spring 2021 - LA (Compton and El Segundo)
Fall 2021 - Miami (Broward County)
Project where districts create assessment dashboards to support teacher instruction
What is data interoperability?
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Who is Donnaraé Wade?
DAILY DOUBLE: What are the number of students reached in the League?
2.8 million
Network mapping applications that enable network members to connect with each other
Kumu and Weavr
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Who is Jessica Bates?
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Who is Malliron Hodge?
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Who is Colin Angevine?