Lacey Gonzales, Author at The Learning Accelerator

Without Ethics, Digital Equity is Impossible: Three Questions Leaders Must Answer

digital equity, edtech / By Lacey Gonzales

Since the start of the pandemic, educators, leaders, and policymakers have undertaken substantial efforts to increase student access to devices and high-speed internet in an attempt to close the digital divide. However, improved digital access cannot be conflated with greater digital equity — the notion that students not only have access to and ownership of […]

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Articulating the “Why(s)” for Learners: Going Beyond “As Good As” to Demand More Through Virtual and Hybrid Learning Efforts

We’re often asked to explain how virtual learning outcomes compare to those in traditional, analog classrooms. This is a fairly straightforward question to answer based on research: generally speaking (and outside of emergency models launched during global crisis), virtual experiences have been found to be as good as in-person ones. Additional evidence suggests that blending

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Clarifying the “What:” Centering Learner Experiences and the Instructional Core as We Define Virtual Learning

evolving delivery / By Lacey Gonzales

Given our lack of unified language, conversations about virtual learning often feel confusing. Is my district’s “hybrid” learning your school’s “simultaneous” instruction? Has one state codified policy for “blended learning” in a way that looks a whole lot different from what its schools and districts have been implementing in classrooms for the last decade? Lack

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What We’re Learning About Virtual Learning

TLA updates / By Lacey Gonzales

In August 2021, our team published Launching Forward, the culmination of our six-monthlong Hop, Skip, Leapfrog project. Hop, Skip, Leapfrog aimed to identify, codify, and make sense of new school system strategies and capabilities that emerged during the pandemic as well as understand how these shifts could benefit learners and schools in the future. Drawing

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A Growing Danger of the Digital Use Divide: A Media Illiterate Generation

digital equity, edtech, evolving delivery / By Lacey Gonzales

Since the introduction of computers into classrooms, the premise has been that increased access to technology would result in more creative, rigorous, personalized, and meaningful learning than what was possible in an analog world. However, despite decades of progress toward equitable access to devices and the internet, this promise has not been universally realized. A

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Help Your School Leaders Succeed (And Retain Them for the Long Haul)

adult wellbeing, deploying and developing experts, professional development / By Lacey Gonzales

For the last three years, I led my school’s pandemic response — from drafting and rolling out COVID protocols to implementing building health and safety measures — all while leading a community of 600 students and educators through a full return to in-person learning. It was the honor of my professional career but came at

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There’s No Digital Equity Without Data Privacy

digital equity, edtech, student-centered learning / By Lacey Gonzales

Whether consciously or unconsciously, apps, internet service providers, and even schools could be selling or releasing data related to students’ — and teachers’ — locations, browsing habits, email content, and even direct messages. Over the past several months, the White House and Congress have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to increase protections for

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Without Ethics, Digital Equity is Impossible: Three Questions Leaders Must Answer

Articulating the “Why(s)” for Learners: Going Beyond “As Good As” to Demand More Through Virtual and Hybrid Learning Efforts

Clarifying the “What:” Centering Learner Experiences and the Instructional Core as We Define Virtual Learning

What We’re Learning About Virtual Learning

A Growing Danger of the Digital Use Divide: A Media Illiterate Generation

Help Your School Leaders Succeed (And Retain Them for the Long Haul)

There’s No Digital Equity Without Data Privacy

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