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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.
Digital Citizenship: Focusing on the what, why, and how
by Nyree Copeland-Whyte on April 17 2019
The call to teach digital citizenship has been heard by schools around the world, yet there are a few schools who question the value, purpose, and position of teaching digital citizenship within the classroom. Many of those questions stem from a...
Crafting a “Data Vision”
by Daniel Owens on February 25 2019
"Information consumes attention. A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." - Herbert Simon
We know that all effective teachers use data to inform instruction, but with the integration of technology in classrooms and the need and...
Stuck in the Cycle: What teachers really face when we ask them to use data in their classrooms
by Stephen Pham, Beth Rabbitt on February 21 2019
Educators are masters of working with scarce resources, including something most limited and valuable – time. Time is always in high demand but short supply, and teachers are constantly forced to make critical, and often tough, choices about where...
Introducing TLA's 2019 Blended Learning Measurement Fellows
by Saro Mohammed on February 19 2019
In 2017, we launched our annual measurement fellowship at The Learning Accelerator to catalyze the effective measurement of blended learning innovation and implementation to understand outcomes and inform collective improvement by building the...
When We Talk About “Assessment,” What Do We Really Mean?
by Nithi Thomas on January 17 2019
When we talk about teachers and classroom data use, we’re oftentimes talking about data produced via assessment, or as Stassen et al. (2001) eloquently write, “the systematic collection and analysis of information to improve student learning.” The...
Making Good on Our Data Resolutions: Introducing a new series on lessons from TLA’s 6-month study on the current state of classroom data use
by Beth Rabbitt on January 15 2019
At TLA, we believe that the use of data is one of the most powerful strategies for realizing an effective, engaging, and equitable outcome for every child in classrooms across America. As our friends at the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) say, when used...
Ignite Your Use of Ed Research
by Saro Mohammed on January 2 2019
Learning sciences seem to be everywhere these days. Over the last couple of years, the message that educators have been getting about evidence has flipped from, “the research is new,” or “the evidence isn’t conclusive,” to “learning science clearly...
2018: A Year to Remember for TLA
by Michela Marini, Samantha Brumley on December 22 2018
The end of the year is a time when The Learning Accelerator team likes to step back and reflect on progress and accomplishments. Above all, we spend a lot of time evaluating how well we’re doing against our mission to ensure that teachers and...
The Parent Perspective: Parents’ perceptions of their children’s blended learning experiences
by Erin Cofrancesco, Melina Minji Kim on December 18 2018
We are graduate students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) studying educational technology and innovation. As part of Barbara Treacy’s course, Connected Teaching in the Digital Age, we partnered with The Learning Accelerator (TLA)...
Blended Learning Data: Moving beyond binary results
by Kevin Hoffman on December 13 2018
“For every 20 minutes a student spent [on our software], their MAP score increased by 2.5 points.”
“Ensure that students see two years of reading growth [if they use our program].”
“Our study has found that use of this math program with fidelity...