Large Scale Blended Digital Learning Strategy Announced by the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools as Part of National Digital Learning Day

The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools announced the launch of a large-scale comprehensive Blended and Digital Learning strategy today on the first-ever national Digital Learning Day. The Partnership is unique in nationally implementing Digital and Blended Learning at scale in school turnarounds, across 22 inner city schools, impacting nearly 17,000 students.

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The Partnership strategy is to use online learning programs to support teachers who need to reach students of varying levels within the same classroom. This approach, known as differentiated learning, seeks to improve student outcomes in Math, English Language Arts and in CAHSEE(1) testing across the Partnership schools through the use of software programs including Revolution Prep, Achieve 3000, Lexia and ST Math.

Digital and Blended Learning is a mix of various teaching methods, combining face-to-face instruction between teacher and student with more technology-driven activities using laptops, desktops, smartphones, and iPads, which are facilitated at all times by a classroom teacher.
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About the Partnership:

The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools was founded in 2007 as the cornerstone of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's strategy to improve education in Los Angeles. It is a unique collaboration between the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District to turn around LA's lowest performing schools and to create a model for doing so district wide. The largest non-district school operator in Los Angeles, the Partnership today manages 22 schools with nearly 17,000 students and 1,500 employees. The Partnership is a 501(c) 3 non-profit education management organization with nearly 37 full-time employees.

For more information, go to www.PartnershipLA.org 

About Digital Learning Day

Digital Learning Day is a national celebration of digital learning sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington-DC based non-profit. Thirty-seven states, 10,000 teachers, and 1.5 million students have signed up in support of this first-ever national Digital Learning Day. This day is the launch of a national awareness campaign designed to celebrate innovative teachers and highlight instructional practices that strengthen teaching and personalize learning for all students. Activities that day include an online Town Hall, the showing of videotaped blended and digital learning classrooms, and an in-depth panel discussion that will be webcast.

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