Learn how Pennsylvania Ready to Learn Block Grant funding can support STEM, science, academic achievement, applied-knowledge skills, and professional learning with LEGO® Education.
Pennsylvania’s Ready to Learn Block Grant provides state funding to support student achievement and approved educational programs. Learn how LEGO® Education solutions can align with Ready to Learn priorities, including STEM and applied-knowledge skills, academic performance, and professional learning.
Here’s how we can help:
- Identify how LEGO® Education solutions and professional development align with Ready to Learn allowable uses and district priorities.
- Create detailed, customizable quotes and implementation plans that can support Ready to Learn budgeting and planning.
- Provide guidance on relevant allowable uses and funding considerations.
- Recommend implementation approaches based on grade level, instructional goals, and district priorities.
- Support districts in connecting planned investments to academic achievement, STEM and applied-knowledge skills, experiential learning, and educator development.
Pennsylvania provides school entities with flexibility to use Foundation and Adequacy funding across a broad range of approved educational strategies. Several acceptable uses directly connect with STEM education, academic improvement, applied learning, and educator development.
Improve academic performance
Ready to Learn funds may support programs that improve the academic performance of students.
Strengthen STEM and applied-knowledge skills
Pennsylvania identifies programs that build strong STEM and applied-knowledge skills as an acceptable use of Ready to Learn funding.
Support evidence-based practices
Funds may support programs or activities that establish and promote data-informed decision making and evidence-based practices to improve educational outcomes for students.
Invest in professional learning
Ready to Learn funding supports professional education, including training in science curriculum, instructional strategies, and technology use to boost student achievement.
Experiential learning and career readiness
Allowable uses also include work-based or experiential learning and career-readiness programs.
LEGO® Education solutions provide hands-on learning experiences that can support several of Pennsylvania’s approved Ready to Learn uses. Districts can connect LEGO Education implementation to the specific educational strategy identified in their Ready to Learn application.
Science
Ready to Learn alignment may include:
- Building strong science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and applied-knowledge skills
- Supporting programs intended to improve student academic performance
- Expanding experiential and project-based learning
- Supporting science instruction through aligned professional learning
Computer Science & AI
Ready to Learn alignment may include:
- Building technology, engineering, mathematics, and applied-knowledge skills
- Supporting experiential learning and career readiness
- Supporting programs intended to improve academic performance
- Providing professional learning related to instructional strategies and the use of technology
Professional Development
Ready to Learn alignment may include:
- Providing high-quality continuing professional education
- Training in science curriculum, instructional strategies, and resources
- Enhancing the use of technology to boost student achievement
- Supporting educators in implementing hands-on science, STEM, and computer science instruction
Ready to Learn funding gives Pennsylvania districts flexibility to establish, maintain, or expand approved programs tied to student achievement and educational outcomes.
LEGO® Education solutions can help districts turn that funding into reusable, classroom-ready implementation across science, STEM, computer science, experiential learning, after-school programming, and professional learning.
For districts, that can mean a stronger return on each funding dollar through durable materials, repeatable learning experiences, and professional learning that supports long-term implementation across classrooms and grade levels.
Pennsylvania also identifies project-based after-school programs that provide academic support in science and other subject areas for students in kindergarten through grade 12 as an acceptable use.
- Start with the educational need or district priority the Ready to Learn investment will address.
- Connect the proposed program to an approved Ready to Learn strategy and identify whether the funding will establish, maintain, or expand the program.
- Explain how the investment supports the outcomes associated with the selected allowable use.
- Include professional learning when educator preparation is part of the implementation.
- Confirm your school entity’s Ready to Learn allocation before developing the final budget.
- Plan expenditures within the grant period. Foundation and Adequacy funds must be spent or encumbered by June 30, 2027, and carryover is not permitted.
Allocation
Pennsylvania’s Ready to Learn appropriation contains several funding components with different purposes.
For LEGO Education instructional planning, districts should focus on their Foundation allocation and, when eligible, Adequacy funding.
Resources
For additional information about Pennsylvania Ready to Learn funding, visit the official Pennsylvania Department of Education resources.
*The Pennsylvania Ready to Learn Block Grant is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and not by the LEGO Group or its affiliates.
