September 4, 2014: West Virginia: First State to Implement Project 24 at the State Level to Personalize Learning for All Students

Sterling Beane, Chief Technology Officer, West Virginia Department of Education

Michael Green, Vice President, West Virginia Board of Education

Cheryl Lemke, Chief Executive Officer, Metiri Group

Tom Murray, State and District Digital Learning Director, Alliance for Excellent Education

Chip Slaven, Counsel to the President and Senior Advocacy Advisor, Alliance for Excellent Education

This webinar will focus on West Virginia's efforts to improve and personalize student learning through a coordinated statewide planning effort to implement new instruction methods and utilize digital learning tools and technology across the state.

In 2013, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced that the state would be the first in the nation to undertake Project 24 as a statewide effort to personalize learning for all students. Led by the Alliance, Project 24 is a systemic planning framework around the effective use of technology and digital learning to achieve the goal of college and career readiness for all students. The Alliance is working with West Virginia to assist in its efforts. All fifty-five West Virginia county school districts and two districts run by the state completed the Project 24 self-assessment, which provides important information to help in the Project 24 planning efforts.

Thanks to a grant awarded from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, the Alliance commissioned a report on the status of personalized and digital learning in the state. This webinar will focus on findings from the report and offer an opportunity for state officials to discuss their vision for the future of personalization and education in West Virginia schools. Panelists will also address questions submitted by viewers from across the country.

Register and submit questions for the webinar at: all4ed.org/webinar-event/sep-4-2014/