Innovative Education Policy Collaborative
Monitoring local, state, and federal education policies to support the scale and spread of learning innovation.
The Innovative Education Policy Collaborative was a regional working group comprised of individuals and organizations who sought to monitor local, state, and federal education policies and their effect on learning innovation. They sought to scale and spread education innovation to ensure that each and every child in the region received a high-quality education.
Publications from this Working Group
Why Education Policy?
- Education policy shapes the entire education system, from school funding to teacher training
- Policy affects the most marginalized students
- Advocacy has the potential to scale innovative ideas to equitably serve students
The Collaborative’s Vision
Innovative teaching and learning is cemented through supportive education policies at the local and state levels
Goals of the Collaborative
- Develop policy frameworks that can be implemented on the local and state levels
- Advocate for policy change through legislator tours and policy summits
- Collaborate with regional educators and administrators in policy development
- Introduce policies that empower and assist educators
Values of the Collaborative
- Teacher education that prepares educators to teach in ways that are engaging, relevant, and equitable
- Innovation in service of equity
- Scalability and sustainability
PAsmart: $30 million state investment in CS
The PA Department of Education’s PAsmart grants support schools, students, workers and businesses across the state. PAsmart will help Pennsylvanians develop the skills they need for the job they want. It will also support businesses through creating a skilled workforce to hire.
Resources
Personalization
- ESSA and Personalized Learning: KnowledgeWorks’ state-by-state analysis of ESSA plans that identifies strategies that enable personalized learning
- Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning: iNACOL’s report for state policymakers seeking to create conditions to support personalized learning
Pennsylvania
- State-Level Policies Supporting Equitable K-12 Computer Science Education: Code.org and BNY Mellon’s state of the states landscape report on progress toward 10 policy priorities for broadening participation in K-12 computer science education
- Every Student Succeeds Act PA Consolidated State Plan: Pennsylvania’s consolidated plan for the state’s implementation of ESSA, the Every Student Succeeds Act
West Virginia
- Education Alliance Legislative Updates: Weekly updates from the Education Alliance of education topics discussed in West Virginia Legislative Sessions
- West Virginia Public Education Consortium Legislator’s Forum: An annual non-partisan event where legislative leaders come together with public education practitioners and experts in education and business