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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.
School Leaders: Four Focus Areas for the Fall
by Beth Holland on September 30 2020
This piece was originally published on Edutopia.
This article, written by TLA Partner Beth Holland, outlines the research done by The Learning Accelerator (TLA) in partnership with Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) to gain insight into remote...
Welcome to Today's One Thing: TLA's Teacher-Driven Series on Remote Learning
by Beth Rabbitt on April 1 2020
A core value of The Learning Accelerator (TLA) team is understanding and tapping into the collective intelligence of those on the front lines of teaching to learn and improve together. That’s why we reached out to teachers around the nation to...
A Vision of Success Is Key to OER Adoption: Resources to Support Leaders
by Jeremy Jones on March 5 2020
Our principals are required to be exceptional in a lot of facets of executive leadership. Foundational among these skills is the ability to create, articulate, and execute on a vision of excellence for teaching and learning. Vision is a crucial...
Nurturing the Fertile Ground of Open Educational Resources from Districts Around the Country
by Jeremy Jones on March 4 2020
In total, there are 98 Launch Districts and 23 Ambassador Districts in the #GoOpen initiative, a nationwide Office of Ed Tech campaign to support school districts adopting and implementing Open Educational Resources (OER).
A Launch District makes...
Need Help Implementing Innovative Learning? The ILEx is Here!
by Beth Rabbitt, Leona Christy on June 12 2019
Schools and systems across the country are pursuing innovative approaches to make learning more personalized, mastery-based, and supportive of whole child development. Doing this work is complex, and given the variety of contexts, goals, and assets...
Coast-to-Coast Connections: How a national network fosters better education for all students
by Amy Dodson on March 12 2019
When I was a little girl in small-town Texas, I loved to travel. I also loved school. Learning and seeing other parts of our country were simply my favorite things. On an extended trip to New York City, I remember meeting a little girl from New...
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...
Let’s Improve Professional Learning Through Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
by Stephen Pham on October 30 2018
In education, we have a tendency to reinvent the wheel. At its core, the challenge is not a lack of will to share; rather, our public education system isn’t built for sector-wide collaboration. Instead, it decentralizes structures and policies,...
Personalizing Learning Without Technology to Address Student Needs
by Daniel Owens on August 14 2018
Personalized learning can take many forms, and more effective personalization does not always mean more technology. The promise of blended and personalized learning is that educators can better meet the individual needs of each of their students, as...
Behind the Curtain of Flex Time
by Rob Schwartz, Jeffrey Starr on July 25 2018
This blog first appeared on EdWeek’s Next Gen Learning in Action column.
With all the interest in innovative school models, many schools are creating “flex time” periods during the day for students to increase student agency. We at Silicon Schools...