Arcadia Unified School District

Learning in a startup-like environment

Supporting a lab school focused on middle school student voice and choice

Our Rancho Lab School, which launched in 2018, is a startup-like environment that allows for close collaboration among students, teachers, parents, and our education community. This space provides a dynamic personalized learning opportunity through which students can learn in the ways that are mo...

Solving big challenges through small teacher working groups

Creating professional development experiences that actually work

Small Working Arcadia Groups (SWaGs) were launched in Arcadia Unified in October 2014 to provide educators with personalized professional development and participation in district-level problem solving opportunities. In contrast to traditional sit-and-get professional development, SWaGs allow for...

Making outsiders insiders with the Arcadia Innovation Summit

Hosting a completely free professional learning conference that welcomes over 1,000 participants from 90 organizations

The Arcadia Innovation Summit is a completely free annual conference hosted and funded by the Arcadia Unified School District. Attended by over 1,000 educators representing more than 90 schools and districts from across California, the conference boasts opportunities to collaborate, share best pr...

Supporting learner-centered education infrastructure with a personalized platform

Providing a learning platform for thousands of students

Inspired by our district goal to personalize learning for every student, we are partnering with AltSchool to provide a personalized learning platform that will be used across Arcadia Unified over the next several years. Arcadia is one of the first public school districts to use the platform, and ...