Providence Public Schools - Case Study

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Nearly 1,900 teaching and learning staff are employed in 42 schools, each equipped with various types of technology tools (42 in all). By the 2013-14 academic year, the large, distributed academic environment had begun to embrace personalized learning (PL) as part of a statewide initiative developed by the governor’s Office of Innovation and the (now former) Commissioner of Education for Rhode Island.