Engage ME — P.L.E.A.S.E. (Personalized Learning Experiences Accelerate Standards-based Education)

Goals for this i3 project include: 1) increase student achievement and student growth as evidenced by reduction in numbers of high need students in subgroups and in total, 2) increase graduation rate in subgroups and in total, and 3) increase graduation rate for high need students, students in subgroups, and in total. Engage ME will address Absolute Priority 2: Innovations that Improve the Use of Data and will integrate several systems into one data system to combine a Role-based Portal so students and teachers have access to all necessary resources to reflect on student learning and teacher instruction and design a personalized Learner Plan, which includes the student's longitudinal and immediate feedback data from prior courses, learning preferences, and intervention successes. Teachers will prescribe for the student content and assessments based on standards, which will be delivered to the student. The Assessment Engine will report on, and eventually select options, to determine the student's mastery of standards Target number of students to be served in the project: 37,500 students in 35 schools Special project features: This system will initially rely upon teachers to select learning activities from a repository (Community Content Library) based on data about the student to assist preparation of the student Personalized Learner Plan. To enhance replication, this Learning Marketplace will use Common Core Standards and the McCrea Standards Compendium as the basis for alignment, automatically finding the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English language arts aligned to the Georgia course taught by the teacher and pre-filtering the learning activities to a useful subset.