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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.
The Future of Education Research & 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...
Generative AI in Schools: Leaders Ask for Guidance
by Jin-Soo Huh on April 6 2023
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been present in schools for years through adaptive learning and feedback tools, this new wave of generative AI tools, headlined by ChatGPT, feels different due to their ability to make unique, sophisticated...
AI’s Role in the Future of Innovation in Education
by Nate Kellogg on March 31 2023
Technology has a knack for raising alarms in education: the advent of tools like the radio, calculators, television, and smartboards have all caused a stir. OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT, has introduced us to the latest...
Can AI Solve the Uniquely Human Challenges Facing Educators Today?
by Beth Holland on March 17 2023
This article originally appeared in the Learner-Centered Collaborative's Blog.
Conversations in the education sector have converged in the past several weeks around three seemingly unrelated topics: pandemic recovery, educator shortages, and...
Student-Centered Environments Foster Independent Learners
by Ryan Mick on March 10 2023
At a recent conference session on student-centered learning, the facilitator asked participants to wrestle with the question, “When did you become an independent learner?” My discussion partner Charli — a high school student who wouldn’t describe...