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College Ready Next Generation Learning Overview January 30, 2014 Stacey Childress @nextgenstacey

All lives have equal value Global Health

malaria HIV family planning

Global Development

clean water agriculture financial services

US Program

transforming education for low income young people 2

Our focus in US education

K-12

POSTSECONDARY

U.S. PROGRAM GOAL

Help students graduate from high school college-ready

Help students get degrees that count

Help students reach their full potential

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K-12 areas of focus

College-Ready Expectations

Effective Teaching

Personalized Learning


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The aspiration gap 95% of 8th graders say they are going to college. 70% graduate from HS, and 37% are prepared to succeed in college 17% of low income students are prepared to succeed in college 8% of students in the lowest income quartile complete a college degree within 6 years


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40 years, double the spending, little improvement $12,000

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$8,000

$4,000

How do we accelerate the pace of improvement?

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0 1971-72 1976-77 1981-82 1986-87 1991-92 1996-97 2001-02 2006-07

State & Federal Expenditures Per Pupil Source: National Center for Education Statistics

NAEP Reading Scores

NAEP Math Scores © 2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Personalized learning has the potential to accelerate student learning gains

Is it possible to achieve similar results as 1:1 mastery-based instruction at scale, in a cost effective way? © 2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Personalized learning definition  Students’ learning experiences – what they learn, and how, when, and where they learn it – are tailored to their individual needs, skills, and interests, and enable them to take ownership of their learning.  Although where, how, and when they learn might vary according to their needs, students also develop deep connections to each other and their teachers and other adults. © 2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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We support work in three areas to accelerate and strengthen innovation

School Models & Systems

Supply & Demand

Digital Content & Tools

Enabling Conditions


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School Models & Systems

Objectives

Sample Investments

• Invest in launching and redesigning schools to accelerate student growth and increase college readiness • Invest in field partners that build capacity to enable more schools to launch and redesign • Next Gen Learning Challenges • Next Gen Systems Initiative • New Classrooms/ Teach to One

• Supporting more districts and support orgs, in Shifts Underway addition to charters • Conducting an ongoing evaluation program


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School launch and redesign grants 150+ schools to date, coast to coast

Minneapolis, MN

1 Saint Albans, VT

1

Detroit, MI 3

San Francisco Bay Area, CA 9

4

New Haven, CT

Los Angeles, CA 6

Chicago, IL Lexington, KY Indianapolis, IN 1 1

Denver, CO

50 2

New York, NY

Newark, NJ

Memphis, TN

3

2

10 San Diego, CA

Boston, MA

1

4

17 2

2

Conway, SC

Austin, TX 1

1

New Orleans, LA 1

4

Houston, TX #

Redesign Schools

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Start-Up Schools

5 Rio Grande Valley, TX © 2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Shared attributes of personalized learning in funded schools 1. Learner profiles – Students’ individual skills, gaps, strengths, weaknesses, interests & aspirations are visible to them and their teachers; constantly refreshed. 2. Personal learning paths – Each student follows a path through content and skills in ways that work best for him or her. Though students’ paths vary, the destination is the same – clear, high expectations. 3. Competency-based progressions – Student learning is continually assessed against clearly defined expectations & goals. Each student advances as s/he demonstrates mastery. 4. Flexible learning environments – Time, space, roles, and instructional modes flex with the needs of students and teachers rather than being fixed variables. © 2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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What might it take to support a systemwide shift to personalized learning?

From “Note on the PELP Coherence Framework,” Stacey Childress , Richard Elmore, and Allen Grossman. Harvard Business School Publishing, 2006


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The NextGen Systems Initiative 51

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Next Generation Systems Initiative, Phase I 20 Systems, ~3.7 Million Students New England Secondary Schools Consortium (ME, VT, NH, CT, RI)

46,395 Education Achievement Authority/ Detroit Public Schools, MI

Portland Public Schools, OR

Chicago Public 405,644 Schools

46,586

Denver Public Schools, CO

Oakland Unified School District

120,000

New York City Public Schools 1,043,886

166,233

78,339 Los Angeles Unified School District 667,273

52,568

Montgomery Philadelphia Public 144,023 County Public Schools, MD Schools, PA

138,421 Colorado Legacy Foundation, CO

135,954 42,532 Dallas Independent Schools Riverside School District, CA

157,162

Students

CharlotteMecklenburg Schools, NC

40,909 Houston Independent School District 204,245 Pasadena Independent 52,218 Schools, TX

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Henry County Schools, GA

29,917 Recovery School District, LA

41,100 Lake County Schools, FL Pinellas County Schools, FL

104,001


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Digital Content & Tools

Objectives

Sample Investments

Shift Underway

• Understand and highlight needs of teachers and students • Catalyze a healthy market that provides products that innovative schools need • Khan Academy • GLASSLab • Literacy Challenge

• Balancing investments in single solutions with grant challenges


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Our deep work with schools uniquely positions us to catalyze innovation in content & tools that teachers and students need Educators told us their choices for literacy courseware aren’t improving and expanding like their choices in math; we launched the Literacy Courseware Challenge to address the gap Out of >300 literacy products claiming common core alignment, only

We launched the Literacy Courseware Challenge and received

Review panels including educators and literacy experts selected

This month, 10,000 students started piloting

Since the challenge, commercial investors have funded

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met the criteria innovative schools use to select digital courseware

applications; 120 met some or all of the criteria in the RFP

winners for a total of $6 million in grants (2/3 for-profits)

of the winning products as part of an evaluation; more to follow

of the winners for a total of $35 million so far

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29 Literacy Courseware Challenge grant winners, $6 million total investment

10 concept grants (>$25K)

14 supplemental & comprehensive solution grants ($100-500K)

5 system, aggregator or platform grants ($250-500K)

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Enabling Conditions

Objective

Sample Investments

• Create conditions for success for personalized learning innovation and adoption at scale

• Education Superhighway • Teacher Wallets (with Donors Choose) • iNACOL • Diversifying our investments to tackle more barriers

Shift Underway

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Infrastructure Market Conditions Policy and Public Dialogue

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Themes across our work Competition

• Catalyze lots of great innovation • Focus on acute gaps • Harness the palpable interest,

Acceleration

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energy & investment Get ready for scale

• Ambitious goals to close the Performance

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aspiration gap Build an evidence base © 2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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These students are in first grade this year. They are the class of 2025. How can we get each of them ready for college by 2025?