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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.
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...
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...
More Than Mindfulness: Strategies to Improve the Wellbeing of Educators and Leaders in Schools
by Beth Holland on August 31 2022
Burned out, demoralized, anxious, and exhausted – these are just a few terms that have been used to describe both teachers and leaders as they head into a new school year.
At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we saw this issue emerging over a...
Help Your School Leaders Succeed (And Retain Them for the Long Haul)
by Ashley Fellows on August 15 2022
For the last three years, I led my school’s pandemic response — from drafting and rolling out COVID protocols to implementing building health and safety measures — all while leading a community of 600 students and educators through a full return to...
Supporting LGBTQ+ Students and Staff All Year Long
by Taylor Bowers on July 21 2022
At The Learning Accelerator, we believe an inclusive and welcoming environment is critical to push learning forward and create spaces that allow students and educators alike to engage, grow, and develop as members of our local and global...
Adult Learning Culture: An Underrated Ingredient for Success in Uncertain Times
by Chelsea Waite & Beth Rabbitt on September 16 2021
This blog was originally published on Next Generation Learning Challenges.
A recent ASCD article confronted an uncomfortable reality: the COVID-19 pandemic is likely not the only major interruption to K–12 schooling in our lifetimes. Contemplating...
Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Effectively Shifting Professional Development (PD) During a Pandemic
by Sarah Johnson on August 3 2021
Dr. Sarah Johnson is the CEO of Teaching Lab. She is passionate about strengthening outcomes for students by improving professional development for teachers. Teaching Lab strives to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning...
Parabola Project: Free resources bridging education and health for school leaders
by Jin-Soo Huh & Roshni Lakhi on March 23 2021
The Learning Accelerator is excited to share a newly redesigned website for the Parabola Project, which provides evidence-informed tools to help school leaders identify options for school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Parabola Project...
Good News: In The Debate About School Re-opening, There Are A Few Things Schools Don’t Actually Need To Do
by Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH; Evan Benjamin, MD, MS, FACP; Margaret Ben-Or, MPH on November 5 2020
As schools across the United States near the end of the year, teachers, leaders, and students are grappling with the challenges associated with a variety of teaching and learning modalities, ranging from in-person instruction to hybrid and fully...
Three Steps to Building an Effective Remote Learning Experience
by Juliana Finegan on October 2 2020
Education is more than content. It is a place for support and connection, so let’s do it right!
As of March 2020, a lot of life as we knew it changed. As school buildings closed and moved to remote forms of engagement and instruction, the pain of...