Priorities for Innovation

We asked entities to share more about the "why" behind their innovation and improvement activities. We asked them to rank their top three from a list of potential priorities:

• Accelerating learning in response to the pandemic

• Improving the quality and consistency of learning experiences through shared aligned materials, tools, and infrastructure

• Increasing opportunities for student self-direction and authorship in learning

• "Unbundling" learning opportunities to increase choice, customization, and access for learners and families

• Increasing access to career-based, credentialing, and other authentic learning opportunities

• Increasing community self-determination and ownership over local learning models

• Modernizing K-12 learning experiences in response to future global needs and challenges

• Creating liberatory approaches that focus on developing each person to their fullest and thriving in ways that matter to them

• Ensuring all students attain mastery of agreed-upon standards and core content knowledge

• Ensuring all classrooms reflect culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy

• Addressing comprehensive learner wellbeing to mitigate impacts of poverty and multigenerational trauma

• Creating antiracist learning environments

Participants could also add and rank their own priorities by selecting "other."

The chart below shows the listed priorities that showed up most often in the top three, most frequently selected overall, and highest rank when selected.

Digging in further, we explored top priorities by market segment, mission horizon, and innovation focal point. (Priority color in the table below corresponds to the table above.)

Finally, we considered the 21 "other" submitted priorities (9% of the priorities), clustering them by convening themes.