Building Summit Basecamp: Year 1

This case study shares what's been learned in the first year of Summit Basecamp, an ambitious effort to support public schools across the United States in implementing personalized learning. While recognizing that Summit Basecamp is one approach to personalized learning, we believe the lessons from the 2015-16 school year can inform the work of others in the field.Summit Basecamp is now called the Summit Learning Program. This publication is the fourth case study that FSG has written with Summit Public Schools

It's Not Just About the Model: Blended Learning, Innovation, and Year 2 at Summit Public Schools

In 2012, FSG and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation published five in-depth case studies on leading blended learning practitioners across the country called "Blended Learning in Practice: Case Studies from Leading Schools". A key question that emerged from this work was how schools can manage the rapid pace of change inherent in blended learning. This case study, a Year 2 follow up in the 2012-13 school year, examines how a rigorous, intentional process for innovation has enabled Summit Public Schools San Jose to continuously improve its blended and whole school learning model

Improving the Odds: Seven Principles for Investing in Early Care and Education

Recent research and advocacy efforts have led funders, politicians, and the business community to agree that the first years of a child's life can determine the rest of their development. Across ideological divides, there is consensus that investing early makes sense—it helps children prepare for successful futures and creates a high return on investment of public dollars.We have created this short guide, featuring examples and how-to's based on our work with more than a dozen foundations working to make progress in the early care and education space. The guide highlights 7 principles to help funders understand and anticipate the challenges and opportunities of supporting early care and education, including practical advice on how to:Inclusively identify and constructively connect the many actors that provide quality care and education to children and their families.Navigate challenges that arise from a sector filled with different approaches and business models.Balance long-term strategies and outcome measures with short-term wins and progress markers.

A Market for Success: How a Robust Service Provider Market Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Completion

Outlines how external service providers can help community colleges enhance institutional redesign, use of data, student services and supports, and faculty development in order to remove barriers to completion, increase efficiency, and improve outcomes

Raising Blended Learners Year 1 Evaluation Report

Raising Blended Learners is a statewide initiative to seed and scale personalized learning across Texas in an effort to improve student achievement across diverse demographics, particularly among schools and districts with persistent achievement gaps.As part of this initiative, Raise Your Hand Texas commissioned FSG to conduct a 4-year evaluation of the program's impact on students and schools and the success of the initiative as a whole. Last year, FSG wrote about the 2015-2016 planning and selection year of Raising Blended Learners, how the program was designed, and how the planning process was experienced by participants.In Year 1 Evaluation Report, we share our developmental evaluation of the 5 demonstration sites to understand the early stages of how models are being implemented, how sites are defining success, and how early success and challenges are being experienced

Blended Learning in Practice: Case Studies from Leading Schools

With support from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, FSG has produced a series of in-depth case studies on blended learning at five leading school operators across the country. Based on a year of research, the case studies provide practical insights for school and school system leaders, funders, nonprofits, and others interested in blended learning.Each case study captures how blended learning impacts the school's instructional, operational, and financial models, as well as lessons learned from implementation.Please visit our website at http://www.fsg.org/tabid/191/ArticleId/799/Default.aspx?srpush=true to download the individual case studies

The New Role of Business in Global Education: How Companies Can Create Shared Value by Improving Education While Driving Shareholder Returns

This paper articulates the case for a renewed role for business in global education through the lens of shared value. It is intended to help business leaders and their partners seize opportunities to create economic value while addressing unmet needs in education at scale. The concepts we describe apply across industries and to developed and emerging economies alike, although their implementation will naturally differ based on contex

Journeys to Personalized Learning

Taking personalized learning to scale in a school or district requires the difficult work of changing the way human beings do their work. Navigating the complicated relationships between students, teachers, parents, administrators, the public, and the local and state agencies is challenging enough on any given day, but aligning them all behind a new vision of how students can learn, and keeping them aligned long enough to implement that vision, is a challenge of an altogether different order. To understand and share how this journey plays out, we documented the implementation journeys of three different institutions, including their successes and challenges, their unexpected setbacks, and their sudden epiphanies

The Role of Networks in Advancing Personalized Learning

From building national movements to developing practical tools, networks of organizations are already playing essential roles in seeding and scaling personalized learning across the United States. Networks provide the support and knowledge of a collective whole while allowing for context in a way that complements and amplifies the work of individual organizations and schools. A more intentional focus on networks can accelerate the personalized learning field as a whole.The Role of Networks in Advancing Personalized Learning demonstrates why networks matter for the personalized learning sector and explores the roles that networks already play today. The brief then poses strategic questions for network leaders, funders, and policy makers on how to strengthen networks going forward

The new role of business in global Education / El nuevo rol de los negocios en la educación global

Este documento articula el caso de un rol renovado para los negocios en la educación global a través de la lente del valor compartido. Su objetivo es ayudar a los líderes empresariales y sus socios a aprovechar las oportunidades para crear valor económico al tiempo que abordan las necesidades no satisfechas en la educación a escala. Los conceptos que describimos se aplican a todas las industrias y a las economías desarrolladas y emergentes por igual, aunque su implementación naturalmente diferirá según el contexto