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Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)
BACKGROUND Inspired by the vision of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and nine participating states, the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) is an alliance of states, districts, educators, foundations, and content and tool providers who are passionate about using technology to improve education. The SLC aims to accelerate the progress of U.S. public schools toward personalized learning by creating a set of shared technology services that will help existing and future instructional technology investments in states, districts and schools work better together. This open source technology is designed to support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards and allow states and districts to integrate student data that currently exists in different source systems and formats and make it available to content and applications from many providers via an applications program interface (API), reducing provisioning costs and thereby freeing up resources for great new personalized learning. COLLABORATORS SLC Board of Directors Foundation Project Leads Supporting Organizations and Partners Alvarez & Marsal Alvarez & Marsal is the project management team driving the consortium of the SLC partners from concept to creation. CELT CELT is working with pilot states and districts to ensure they have the supporting infrastructure and processes in place to embrace and implement the SLC technology. Double Line Partners Double Line Partners is a strategic consulting firm focused on serving the public sector with a special emphasis on working in K-12 education. The firm is engaging with teachers and principals in participating districts to ensure they understand how the technology can support their instructional improvement efforts and to incorporate their ideas and feedback into the project. Intentional Futures Intentional Futures (iF) is a product strategy, design and development studio that is working with teachers to better understand their needs in order to inform a core set of tools and resources available through the SLC technology, and a complementary application developer toolkit to go with it. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Waggener Edstrom Worldwide is a global, integrated communications agency charged with developing and implementing the SLC's communications strategy. Wireless Generation Wireless Generation is an education technology company contracted on a work-for-hire basis to create open-source software for data integration and interoperability. BENEFITS States, school districts and teachers need services that provide deep insights about student performance, and that allow them to connect those insights to content and assessments so they can personalize education to meet students' individual needs. Creating the infrastructure to do this well is cost-prohibitive for most states. With the support of Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the SLC is reducing the burden on state budgets by building this technology on behalf of states and making it available to them as shared services. This frees up state resources to spend on other local and state education priorities that benefit teachers and students. Although the SLC technology delivers the advantage of a common infrastructure for data integration and application interoperability, the end-user experience will be determined by the applications implemented by participating states and districts. This new technology will benefits states and school districts by offering them: STATES AND DISTRICTS The Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) is building a set of shared technology services that will benefit school districts and states by making personalized education in public schools more affordable. Pilot Districts The SLC technology is currently in development and will be tested in states and districts through a two-phased pilot program. To develop and launch the services, the SLC is working with school districts in several states that have holistic plans to improve student achievement by addressing curriculum, content, assessments and professional development. The SLC is partnering with these pilot districts to identify needs, develop and deploy the SLC technology, and gather feedback. Pilot States These districts are working together to identify educator and student needs and, through the pilot process, will help shape the final version of the service to most effectively meet the needs of teachers and students. After the pilot phase, these states are committed to making the shared services available to all of their districts. Although the SLC technology delivers the advantage of a common infrastructure for data integration and application interoperability, the end-user experience will be customized by participating states and districts. The following states and districts are participating in Phase 1 of the pilot program, with plans to deploy the system statewide in late 2012: The following states are participating in Phase 2 of the pilot program:
- PublicationDoes Teacher Professional Development Have Effects on Teaching and Learning? Analysis of Evaluation Findings from Programs for Mathematics and Science Teachers in 14 States
- PublicationAlignment and the States: Three Approaches to Aligning the National Assessment of Educational Progress with State Assessments, Other Assessments, and Standards
- PublicationKey State Education Policies on PK-12 Education: 2008
- PublicationEffects of Teacher Professional Development Gains in Student Achievement: How Meta Analysis Provides Evidence Useful to Education Leaders
- CCSSO-CII Partnership Initiative to Survey SIG Implementation
- PublicationGuide to United States Department of Education Growth Model Pilot Program 2005-2008
- Education Data & Information Systems
- ProgramEducation Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC)
- ProgramState Growth Models for School Accountability: Progress on Developing and Reporting Measures of Student Growth
- PublicationTRANSFORMING EDUCATION: Delivering on Our Promise to Every Child