“Getting involved with Future Ready Schools® was our attempt to get the high school involved,” Gehrens explains. At that time, the district already had begun to implement some student-centered approaches at its middle schools. Attending the institute “was the spark that ignited our transformation,” Gehrens says. The school district first joined the FRS network in 2017 after attending an FRS leadership institute in New Jersey. We were doing and align those initiatives with the ,” says Bristolīristol Township, located in eastern Pennsylvania near the New Jersey border, serves 6,348 students, two-thirds of whom come from economically disadvantaged families. “Being part of the collaborative allowed us to revisit what The FRS free five-step planning process andĭeveloped individual plans for implementing student-centered learning. Pennsylvania and West Virginia earlier this year as district leaders pursued
Virginia and Pennsylvania collaborative. TheĬollaborative project provided customized support to participating districts in Now, through a partnership with T-Mobile, the district is poised to expand the one-to-one initiative to its high school in January 2020 and its three elementary schools next school year.īristol Township is one of twenty-four districts that belong to Through partnerships with Digital Promise-a Future Ready Schools® (FRS) founding partner-and the Verizon Foundation, Bristol Township launched a one-to-one student-to-device initiative at its two middle schools in 2015. Building community partnerships (one of the seven gears in the Future Ready Framework) has been instrumental in supporting Bristol Township School District’s transition to student-centered learning.
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