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Research as a Partnership: Learning, Growing, and Designing Together

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With education research, true expertise doesn’t reside solely with researchers — it thrives in partnership. Collaborating with those closest to the work allows us to gain a deeper, more accurate understanding of what’s really happening in schools. Our partners bring indispensable knowledge of their contexts, cultures, strengths, and challenges, making their insights not just valuable […]

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Meet TLA’s Accelerating Adoption Network Cohort

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Despite decades of effort, persistent gaps in K-12 student learning remain a pressing challenge, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on reading and math achievement. While initial recovery efforts focused heavily on supplemental strategies like high-dosage tutoring, it’s clear that real, lasting progress requires more than just add-ons — it demands bold, scalable solutions embedded

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Bringing AI to Life in Classrooms: Promising Practices from the School Teams AI Collaborative

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As schools across the country embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI), innovative educators are leading the way, showing how AI can enhance teaching and learning while keeping students at the center of the experience. Providing educators with concrete examples of how to implement AI-enabled instructional practices empowers teachers with new strategies and helps

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Empowering Partners While Driving Research Innovation  

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Oftentimes, research is done on schools and systems. In this extractive relationship, researchers collect data, rarely including participants in the design or analysis, and then later report findings back to the sites. At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we believe that research should occur with our partners. This means addressing questions that are meaningful to them

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Celebrating Our Wins: The Power of Reflecting on Progress

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As educators, we’re used to hitting the ground running and doing what’s necessary to ensure our students fully benefit from our plans. In our rush to meet deadlines, reach objectives, and deliver instruction, it’s easy to overlook something important: celebrating the wins that shape our work and help us make progress toward larger goals. Celebrating

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A Collaborative Research Agenda for Innovation

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This is a summary of “Building a Shared Space of Innovative Research and Learning,” originally published on Aurora Institute’s blog. Rethinking how we conduct research and assessment within an education space undergoing deep transformation presents a foundational challenge to the field. It is also a challenge that cannot be addressed in isolation or by a

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Reimagining Assessment for a Student-Centered Future

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Assessment’s role in K-12 teaching and learning cannot be overstated. At the individual level, assessment is how educators understand, personalize, and accelerate students’ progress. Collectively, assessment drives the sector forward, supporting policymakers and state and local education agency leaders in identifying and scaling effective practices and high-quality models. Yet, as education evolves, so too must

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Three Lessons for Effective & Equitable Edtech Leadership

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For too long, K-12 technology leadership has been defined by siloed approaches — prioritizing tools over the systems they operate within. This fragmented focus has hindered innovation and equity, leaving many leaders struggling to make meaningful, lasting changes. It’s a challenge reflected in CoSN’s 2024 State of EdTech District Leadership Report, where 77% of edtech

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Thoughtful AI Integration: Guidance for Educators

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Discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) in education often fall into two extremes. On one side, AI is celebrated as the answer to every challenge educators face. On the other, it is viewed with suspicion as a disruptive force that must be avoided. This all-or-nothing framing misses the nuance of AI’s potential to enhance learning when

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AI-Powered Teaching: Voices from the School Teams AI Collaborative

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As educators work to meet an evolving set of student needs and hopes, AI offers schools a unique opportunity to improve upon traditional teaching and learning models. However, for educators to harness new classroom practices they need access to tangible, actionable examples of how AI can support their work, improve student experiences, and promote equitable

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