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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Step 1: Designing Collective Futures - Bridging Community Voices & Organizational History to Support Change
by Nicole Assisi & Shelli Kurth on June 2 2022
Sustainable change in education begins with sharing your needs and vision for what is possible. Although this might seem obvious at first, there are ways we’ve seen leaders supercharge their approach to the task, integrating history with a...
Sustainable Change, One Step at a Time
by Nicole Assisi & Shelli Kurth on June 1 2022
We are living in a tumultuous time for education. If you’re feeling more exhausted and frustrated than ever before, you are not alone. The COVID pandemic has created a marathon of emergencies and urgent initiatives, leaving educators and ed leaders...
Solving Problems in Uncertain Times
by Nate Kellogg on November 30 2021
School and system leaders continue to face numerous trials and tribulations. While vaccines are finally available to most school-age kids, the 2021-22 school year continues to present uncertainty. Between navigating challenges with teacher burnout,...