Race To The Top

What’s New

The Race to the Top – District (RTT-D) program aims to support improvements in teaching and learning that leads to improved student outcomes. These personalization efforts take many forms within our portfolio, with some grantees paying close attention to how their in-school personalization investments interact with out-of-school conditions for learning. For example, the Middletown City School District in upstate New York, a 2012 RTT-D grantee, has been very successful at implementing academic and non-academic personalization strategies to improve the educational outcomes for its students. Video

Transforming the Culture of Teaching and Learning: Four Race to the Top-District Grantees’ Implementation of Personalized Learning is the second report from a study that followed four Race to the Top-District grantees from Fall 2013 through the start of their third year of implementation in Fall 2015.

Individual grantee case studies are included for Iredell-Statesville Schools (NC), Miami-Dade Public Schools (FL), New Haven Public Schools (CA) and Metropolitan School District of Warren Township (IN). This report details how personalized learning initiatives have sparked transformations in student learning through shifting the role of teachers, using technology to increase access to resources, restructuring assessments to provide meaningful information, and increasing college and career readiness exposure.

In addition, check out new resources from the Race to the Top-District program:

• Rapid Cycle Evaluation for Educators: Improving Student Outcomes through Rapid Cycle Evaluation
• Rapid Cycle Evaluation for Educators: A Primer on RCEs in the Race to the Top-District Program
• Elements of Personalized Learning: Partnerships
• Elements of Personalized Learning: Technology
• Personalized Learning in Progress: Case Studies of Four Race to the Top-District Grantees’ Early Implementation;
• Getting Ahead of the Curve – Using Leading Indicators for Personalized Learning; and
• Blended Learning Readiness and Progress Rubric.

Executive Summary