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Blended learning can do for educators what it is already doing for students, as long as professional development (PD) designers are as strategic with its implementation as teachers are when building a blended lesson for their students! Significant work has been done on how to create effective blended learning experiences for k-12 students and how […]
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Over the last nine months, TLA has been engaged in a deep research effort to better understand teaching and learning in blended and personalized learning environments. We have learned a great deal and identified some really terrific practices at a number of schools nationally. We plan to share out as much as we can in
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Free, online training series helps teachers, school, and district leaders Cupertino, CA – August 10, 2015 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a non-profit organization catalyzing the transformation of American K-12 education through blended learning on a national scale, and grantee Relay Graduate School of Education (Relay), a leading, nationally accredited graduate school of education, today
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Free video series profiles work of 11 Blended Learning Master Teachers Cupertino, CA – February 24, 2015 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts across the U.S., and grantee BetterLesson, today launched the Blended Master Teacher Project, a new online resource showcasing the practices
At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we believe that effective principal leadership is absolutely critical for creating and sustaining schools that foster deeper and personalized learning. Given this, as part of TLA’s next human capital initiative, we’re running two experiments aimed at supporting and increasing the capacity of these leaders as they engage in school redesign
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School districts often ask me, “Who can help us implement high-quality blended learning?” And my answer is always, “It depends on which phase of the project you are in and your organization’s strengths and weaknesses.” Some districts are starting blended learning from the beginning and some are looking for partners to help them think through
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Last week, and with TLA’s support, TNTP released a first version of guidance to help districts and schools rethink their human capital systems to support blended learning. The working paper, “Reimagining Teaching In a Blended Classroom,” summarizes the findings and ideas of their talented team, which were informed by visits to schools across the country
On Tuesday, I touched upon some of the ways blended learning can be used to deepen student learning. Today, I’d love to tackle another group we tend not to emphasize in conversations about deeper learning: teachers. To kick this off, a note about the inspiration for this post. A few weeks ago on this blog,
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In talking with teachers and leaders on the ground, we’ve been told time and time again that nothing beats getting to see a peer demonstrate how blended learning works in the classroom. The problem is, though, that because blended learning is such a new practice, most teachers lack really experienced peers from which to learn.
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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
Could local innovation networks be a key to adopting blended learning? Read More »
