"Innovative" Education Pilot Program Development North Dakota

Encouraging innovation through policy To make that vision a reality, NDDPI and their partners needed to identify to the best ways to encourage personalized learning and greater innovation across the state. They held strategy sessions with school districts to discover the barriers they experienced related to innovation. And after careful analysis, the department discovered some of the barriers were in policy. Local districts and schools were not being given the flexibility and support through state policy that they needed to scale innovative learning opportunities.