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Rethinking the Education Experience of Future Generations

The Learning Accelerator recently released an important resource, A Framework for Cultivating High-Quality Blended Learning at the State Level, for state leaders who share its goal of achieving improved student outcomes within an innovative culture. The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) and thousands of Rhode Island teachers and students are blazing a trail for […]

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New Framework Helps Educational Leaders Build Culture of Innovation

Self-Assessment Tool Enables Teams to Track and Manage Progress Cupertino, CA – October 14, 2014 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts and states across America, in partnership with 2Revolutions (2Rev), a national education design lab that designs, launches and supports Future of Learning

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TLA Grantee EducationSuperHighway Announces Multi-Year Investment by Startup: Education and the Gates Foundation

Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup: Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Lead Multi-Year Philanthropic Investment to Connect Every K-12 Student San Francisco – December 4, 2013 – EducationSuperHighway, the nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing high speed broadband to the nation’s K-12 public schools, today announced that it is launching a comprehensive national effort to upgrade

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Could local innovation networks be a key to adopting blended learning?

School reforms are often recognized as successful when champions are able to package their essential elements for easy implementation in various environments—this is what grant-makers sometimes call “scale and spread,” or what reformers sometimes cynically call “innovation-in-a-box.” Trying to package all of blended learning as a set of market-ready models, however, isn’t possible just yet—and

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Investing in Autonomy, Performance, and Innovation

Most districts put “innovation” at the top of their agendas these days, but too few are innovating with a purpose. The Reynoldsburg City School District (RCS) is becoming an exemplar for how to unleash principals’ and teachers’ creativity in meaningful ways that are guided but not prescribed or limited by a central office agenda. Across

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Leveraging the Core Budget to Change America’s Schools

Across Reynoldsburg City School District (RCS), personalized learning is increasingly achieved at the classroom and individual student level through the shift to blended learning. Blended learning requires a fundamental redesign of instructional and organizational models, transforming the core elements of teaching and learning–changing roles, structures, schedules, staffing, and core budgets. Following on the heels of

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Step #1 in District-wide Blended Learning Implementation: Assess Stakeholder Readiness

There are many steps on the path to implementing blended learning in school districts. In their enthusiasm to hit the ground running, district leaders may overlook a critical first step, one that can fundamentally impact the success of the entire initiative: issuing stakeholder readiness assessments. TLA Partner John Branam makes the case to district leaders

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The Learning Accelerator Awards $780,000 Grant to BetterLesson

Partnership will profile work of 10 master blended learning teachers Cupertino, CA – May 14, 2014 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts across the U.S., announced a grant of $780,000 to BetterLesson to identify, capture, and share the work of 10 master blended

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Tapping into Teachers: Mobilizing and Learning from the Front Line of Blended Practice

I grew up in a continuous improvement household. Both of my parents – in their own ways and professions – were pretty obsessed with efficiency and management, so our familial commitment to systems-thinking and optimization ran deep. My ‘80s upbringing was less influenced by MTV and more by things like TQM (“Total Quality Management,” for

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