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The field of education is constantly innovating as schools across the country search for the best ways to improve learning for each student. On the TLA Blog, The Learning Accelerator team and guest experts investigate and help you navigate the latest research, commentary, and useful tools to push the field forward.
3 Ways to Improve Accessibility in Virtual Learning Environments
by Nate Kellogg on June 30 2023
For students with disabilities, accessibility is a critical issue, but technology has played a significant role in improving access and working to ensure all students get what they need. Given assistive technology’s effect on improving...
Asking the Right Questions to Improve Equity in Virtual & Hybrid Learning
by Nate Kellogg on June 27 2023
In working to prove their worth in an ever-changing education landscape, virtual and hybrid schools across the country are looking to hone their craft and make improvements. Over the past year at The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we have supported 20...
Improving Teacher Morale in Virtual Schools
by Nate Kellogg on June 25 2023
Teachers have a history of being underappreciated and overworked. Teaching in and beyond the pandemic has been particularly thankless and unsustainable, as schools respond to the unfinished learning needs of their kids while curricula became a...
Learning Alongside Others Sparks Plymouth-Canton’s Virtual Redesign
by Nate Kellogg on June 20 2023
Amanda Pelukas joined Plymouth-Canton Community Schools (P-CCS) in Michigan to transform P-CCS’ Virtual Academy. “COVID remote learning,” as Pelukas described it, needed to improve. Instead of solving the problem on their own, Pelukas and her team...
The Future of Education Research and Measurement
by Violet Ford and Beth Holland on May 18 2023
For decades, quantitative, randomized control trials (RCTs) have been considered the gold standard of education research. The What Works Clearinghouse even prioritizes studies that randomly assign participants to conditions and show statistical...
Using Design Thinking to Solve System Challenges
by Lacey Gonzales and Ryan Mick on May 5 2023
How do you unite a diverse set of organizations that believe in the same cause but haven’t worked collectively yet? And how do you ensure meaningful change and impact results from bringing the leaders of these organizations together? This is exactly...
The “Soft Skills” Students Need in an AI-Filled World
by Samantha Artukovich on May 3 2023
It’s easy to conjure a mental image of a science fiction-inspired dystopian future when we hear cautionary tales from the classroom about ChatGPT completing homework assignments, anecdotes of the chatbot fooling a human into bypassing bot controls...
Welcoming a New TLA Team Member, Shanice Maxwell
by Lacey Gonzales on April 25 2023
As spring transitioned into full swing, we had some celebrating in order at The Learning Accelerator (TLA)! We welcomed Shanice Maxwell as the Associate Director, Talent, Culture, and DEI Initiatives at TLA.
A former educator who brings her...
Innovating While Leading Schools is Hard – Lessons from Using ChatGPT
by Rashida Kimbrue Major on April 19 2023
Recently, districts from across the U.S. converged at Dell's Innovation Summit to tackle problems of practice around innovating in schools, including: designing innovative learning models, implementing new structures of high school through a...
Investigating Creativity in the Classroom: Research Tools for Teachers and Leaders
by Beth Holland on April 12 2023
Creativity is the competence to leverage self-interests, motivation, imagination, and prior knowledge in flexible ways1 to generate, evaluate, or improve ideas; imagine new ways of solving problems;2 forge new connections — across content and...