Enabling Analytics for Improvement: Lessons from Year 2 of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative

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Now in its second year, the Fresno Unified School District’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI) continues to help teachers and students develop the skills, competencies and mindsets essential for “as yet imagined” futures. A unique aspect of Fresno’s PLI is its analytics partnership between Fresno Unified, Microsoft Education, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Digital Promise. This report describes the early success of the PLI on students’ learning outcomes, evidence on what elements of the implementation are working, and the process and principles of the analytics partnership. The report aims to share with other education systems the lessons learned from this journey.

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learning analytics, personalized learning, implementation

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