RePublic Schools
Project Title
For expanding and implementing a personalized learning program at the high school level
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
College and career readiness have not kept pace with rising high school graduation rates. This problem disproportionately impacts low-income students, hindering their opportunity to achieve economic mobility through quality education. RePublic Schools, a charter management organization currently operating five middle schools and one high school in Nashville, Tennessee and Jackson, Mississippi, was founded in 2014 with a mission to reimagine public education in the South. Despite impressive results, RePublic leadership believe that more must be done to ensure college and career readiness, namely, personalized learning experiences will be key to students’ long-term success. With seed funding from the Corporation, RePublic has refined a digital platform and developed instructional materials to transform the RePublic High School model into a more personalized, adaptive academic experience. Building on this work, RePublic will expand its personalized learning curriculum to include more content areas and grade levels, as well as develop necessary supports.
Project Title
For a project to develop a digital platform and infrastructure to transform the RePublic high school model into a more personalized, adaptive academic experience
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
15 months
Description
In order to prepare all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be active participants in a robust democracy and to be successful in the global economy, schools need to be redesigned to better serve students and teachers. RePublic Schools was founded in order to reimagine education for underserved students in Nashville, TN and across the American South, where entrenched, systemic, and historic inequity magnifies the problem of race, socio-economic status, and zip code being the primary determinants of a child’s life outcomes. Over the past three years, RePublic has developed a singularly comprehensive expertise in the creation of computer science curriculum and in training teachers with no prior programming experience to learn alongside scholars. RePublic now seeks to redesign their high school model to personalize students’ experiences so that they can take ownership of their own learning and be better prepared for postsecondary success. With Corporation support, RePublic will build a personalized team to develop and implement a digital personalized learning model for RePublic High School.