These are identified by State assessments and test results and are then used to create a student's “playlist,” or Individual Learning Plan.
Teachers can acquire real-time data on each student's achievement and adjust their live instruction to suit, usually daily.
Teachers can review and suggest changes to the algorithm's daily lesson recommendations to provide additional pedagogical direction, input and feedback.
Their perceived inflexibility prompted Teach to One founding CEO Joel Rose to imagine a program that offered students an individual learning experience.
Acoustical separation was found to not be a major concern due to the students' being more actively engaged by their personalized learning.
Funding has been received from approximately 30 entities outside of the NYC DOE,[11] including $5million in stimulus money from the federal government,[12] $500,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a grant to PBS to provide digital learning materials,[13] and Cisco Systems.
[16] Teach to One (then called School of One) has been heralded as one of the "100 Best Innovations of 2009" by Time magazine,[17] and the "future of education" by the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University.
Teach to One has received funding from the federal government's Investing in Innovation (i3) program to further study the effectiveness of its implementation into schools.