In 2014-15, ALP collaborated with Union County School District and UNC-Charlotte’s College of Education to personalize the learning of teachers who require very specific assistance in raising student achievement while also earning a Master’s degree in Education. This project leveraged both technology and the most innovative models for teacher learning to provide teachers the just-in-time assistance […]
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Enhanced Technology, Blended, and Personalized Learning in Georgia
From 2010 to 2014, a large school district in Georgia, ALP, and Dell Computers partnered to bring enhanced technology and blended/personalized learning environments to all students, faculty, and district leaders. This ambitious, publicly funded, and fully sustainable initiative contains several critical elements for success that call for a systemic approach to district transformation. District Needs […]
Building Technology Leaders in Virginia
ALP has partnered with Dell to support a partnership spanning more than 15 years with a large Virginia school district that is one of the longest running 1:1 districts in the country. This work has catalyzed a number of innovations in teaching and learning. At the forefront of these innovations is the district’s Reflective Friends process, a […]
Leveraging Funding and Building Network Partners
Throughout the 2011-12 academic year, a small rural school system in Virginia developed the foundation that enabled them to win only one of four Virginia Department of Education College Partnership Lab School Planning grants. From the outset, the ALP executive consultant assisted the superintendent and her cabinet to lead a strategic change effort that dramatically […]
Building a Shared Vision
In the fall of 2012, a large rural school system outside Charlotte, North Carolina, commissioned an ALP organizational consultant to facilitate a visioning exercise for its superintendent and executive cabinet to explore how the personalization of learning could align with its Globalization Innovation Graduation initiative. The leadership of this high-achieving school district responded powerfully to […]