Innovation Lab Network
The Council of Chief State School Officers Innovation Lab Network engages
schools, districts, and state education agencies working to identify new
designs for public education that empower each individual student to thrive as
a productive learner, worker, and citizen. CCSSO facilitates this network of
states, which includes California, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, New
Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and
Wisconsin, to support programmatic, policy, and structure design work within
each participating state and across the network. The network is a key
element of CCSSO’s overall commitment to "Next Generation Learning."
CCSSO: Next Generation
Learners
The Fund for Transforming Education
The Fund for Transforming
Education The Fund for
Transforming Education exists to provide a connection between those that
are willing to be involved in meaningful ways to truly change education and
those who can make those changes happen. As an independent 501c3, The Fund works
outside the existing education system to find innovative tools and techniques
to ensure that Kentucky students have greater success, cooperates with current
leadership in the education community to ensure that the methods identified are
practical and ensures all applicable parties are present in this work to lead
the implementation of these valuable solutions.
Center for Innovation in Education
Center
for Innovation in Education at the University of Kentucky contributes
to the national education reform agenda with a focus on ensuring more states
are adopting and implementing a standard definition of college and career
readiness that embodies “deeper learning” outcomes, implementing meaningful
measures of those outcomes, and holding all levels of the system accountable
for results.
Achieve
At
the 1996 National Education Summit a bipartisan group of governors and
corporate leaders decided to create and lead an organization dedicated to
supporting standards-based education reform efforts across the states. To do
so, they formed Achieve as an independent,
bi-partisan, non-profit education reform organization. To this day, Achieve
remains the only education reform organization led by a Board of Directors of
governors and business leaders. This unique perspective has enabled Achieve to
set a bold and visionary agenda over the past 15 years, leading Education Week
in 2006 to rank Achieve as one of the most influential education policy
organizations in the nation.