Advancing Learning Environment Infrastructure
Digital Learning Networks
Achieving scalable deployment of educational resources, tools, and services toward specific and measurable access, affordability, and quality objectives
Educational Application, Content, and Media Infrastructure
Technology infrastructure for enabling efficiencies in content development, searching, delivery, and mobile devices
Integrated Digital Curriculum to Enable Student-Centered Learning
Architectures, software platforms, and infrastructures that enable institutional users (faculty and students) to create and select from a wide range of curated digital content and tool alternatives
How a Wyoming District Triumphed with Simplified Account Management and Analytics
Sublette County School District #1 and ClassLink
Summary: Sublette County School District #1 partnered with ClassLink to enhance their schools by streamlining account management, facilitating easy access to online resources, ensuring efficient rostering, and providing insights into application usage. In support of its 1:1 learning environment, ClassLinkâs single sign-on solution and account provisioning enable students and faculty to access online resources and manage their accounts easily. Additionally, with efficient rostering and insights into application usage, Sublette County administrators can better integrate student information systems and make informed purchasing decisions regarding online resources.
Learning Impact: The automatic account provisioning system greatly improved efficiency, reducing administrative workload and ensuring that students had quick and easy access to the tools they needed. The rostering solution enabled the transfer of important student information between different applications, acting as a "translator" for various platforms. With insights into application usage and the effectiveness of digital resources, educators and administrators can easily generate a single report that details how each application performs. This allows them to make informed, data-driven decisions about which tools are most beneficial for students.
Innovation in Action: Avela's Impactful Solutions for My Schools Newark and Newark Common App
New Jersey Children's Foundation and Avela
Summary: Avela has transformed the school enrollment experience for the New Jersey Children's Foundation (NJCF) by providing innovative tools that personalize each child's educational journey. This enables families to make informed decisions and choose the schools that best fit their unique preferences and needs. Avela Explore, also known as Newark's school finder, offers a mobile-friendly platform emphasizing accessibility and personalization. Avela Apply, the engine behind Newark's Common App, simplifies the application process with a mobile-optimized parent portal. Families can easily manage their applications through Newark's Common App, utilizing Avela's accessible parent portal for submission, tracking, and communication.
Learning Impact: The parent-facing tools are mobile-optimized, multilingual, and support over 100 languages, ensuring exceptional accessibility for all families. Newark's Common App met every deadline in its inaugural year, delivering a seamless, easy-to-use process to Newark families. 98% of families secured their top choice for kindergarten slots, and 83% received one of their top three choices across all grades. The platform prioritizes equity, giving preference to homeless and displaced students, special education students, English-language learners, and those qualifying for free lunch, ensuring an inclusive and accessible enrollment process for all Newark families.
Klett World Languages Leverages MagicBox to Deliver High-Quality Language Learning Experiences
Klett World Languages and MagicBox
Summary: Klett World Languages (KWL) is dedicated to enhancing language education in the U.S. with high-quality materials in Spanish, French, German, and Italian designed for modern classrooms. KWL partnered with MagicBox to create KWL Hub, a platform for K-12 institutions that includes K-12 adoptions, educational standards compliance, and easy integration with third-party tools. KWL Hub utilizes MagicBox's digital learning platform, offering adaptive learning and personalized pathways while providing advanced licensing. This collaboration promotes effective communication in various languages through innovative solutions.
Learning Impact: The KWL Hub is designed to meet the digital standards of the U.S. education system. Its content aligns with the standards set by ACTFL and various state guidelines, ensuring high-quality language education for students. The platform has successfully attracted 25,000 users across 81 districts and 410 schools. A key factor in the KWL Hub's success is its strong integration with the most popular platforms in the broader educational ecosystem, achieved through compliance with robust 1EdTech standards such as LTI and QTI.
