Approach and
Services
At The Learning Accelerator, our approach and services are designed to accelerate individual, organizational, and sector-wide learning to transform K-12 education.

A Student-Centered Vision

For more than a decade, TLA has been working to create a world in which every child in America gets the highly effective, engaging, and equitable education they need to reach their full and unique potential. We advance an actionable vision for kids and try to build understanding concretely for people on what teaching and learning that is more personalized, mastery-based, and holistically-developing can actually look like in practice and in our systems.

Tackling Shared Learning Challenges

Making this vision for student-centered learning a reality in practice for every student in every classroom can often feel out of reach, especially for those learners furthest from opportunity. Individual educator and organizational efforts are often hampered by a lack of collective understanding of who is doing what, and crucially, what they’re learning in the process. Decision-makers navigate resources inequities and fragmentation, and initiatives tend to over-emphasize single solutions rather than coherent collective change.

Igniting Rapid, Connected Learning

TLA acts as a critical agent and partner in the education sector to ignite faster learning. By advancing a vision for individual and sector learning, actively bridging gaps in understanding and access to necessary resources, tools, and networks, and catalyzing greater collective action and change, we’re building a better and more responsive K-12 sector.

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Knowledge Codification, Packaging, and Production

Helping organizations capture and codify knowledge to drive improvement and innovation for the education sector. Tapping into our significant expertise in resource and tool development, TLA helps partners identify and document practices and stories, producing highly actionable, user-centered tools and guidance in a variety of multimedia formats – including case studies, training materials, and reports that make sense of larger patterns and lessons.

Network Development and Facilitation

Developing and sustaining networks that connect actors and create economies of learning and support to drive improvement and innovation. Our network models vary based on need and task; central to all of them is a commitment to: inclusive, research-based approaches; ongoing measurement and learning capture; participant capacity-building for improved student and system outcomes; and generation and sharing of openly licensed, relevant, generalizable, and scalable insights and evidence to the sector.

Research and Measurement

Assisting organizations assess impact, measure progress, and share findings through comprehensive evaluation services. Decision-makers need support to learn quickly, uncovering what is working best, for whom, under what conditions, and why. TLA partners with schools, districts, states, and other education organizations to accelerate this process, helping them identify opportunities and make data-informed decisions. Our team rapidly conducts literature reviews and focus groups, iteratively and adaptively produces equity-centered, research studies, and builds teams’ internal learning processes and capacity. Across this, we translate findings to bridge research-practice-policy gaps and provide coherence by synthesizing across studies and programs.

Strategy and Program Advising

Leveraging our deep sector knowledge and learning capabilities to help partners understand key actors, progress, and challenges, make connections between theory and practice, and identify the best ways to move their work forward. Decision-makers need actionable intelligence and advice to ensure their strategies are reality-grounded, proximate, and research-informed. Our advising varies based on need and task, but central to every project is a commitment to helping organizations tackle gnarly questions of learning to make confident decisions and effectively advance their missions.

Landscape and Market Mapping and Analysis

Guiding partners to better understand an ever-changing education sector to drive improvement and innovation through detailed landscape and market analysis to provide insights for strategic planning. TLA understands that in a quickly evolving field, organizations need detailed research to identify field actors, initiatives, programs, and products. We work alongside our partners to make sense of gaps and opportunities for collaboration, helping to answer questions to who is doing what, how, and where to drive impact.

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Looking for more information? Email us at

info@learningaccelerator.org

Have a media inquiry? Contact Lacey Gonzales at

lacey.gonzales@learningaccelerator.org

411 Congress St
Office 403
Portland, ME 04101

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