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Working with young people demands dynamism that reflects the complexity of who they are and who they will become…

The last four weeks have felt like a roller coaster transition from school to summer. My girls wrapped up third and first grades at our local school…

On Tuesday, May 24, I was wrapping up preparation for testimony I had planned to give the next day to the Texas Commission on Virtual Education on virtual and hybrid learning.

The last few months have slowly but surely begun to feel more like life before the COVID-19 pandemic. With case counts receding, my children have returned to school without masks, and the TLA team is preparing to come together (vaccinated) at our first in-person offsite here in Maine in well over two years.

As the new calendar year began, so many educators picked up right where the pandemic in 2021 left them: struggling mightily to find the time, bandwidth, energy, and ideas needed to maximize outcomes for their students.

Explore TLA’s latest releases, research, and happenings in our Fall 2021 TLA Update. Topics covered in this newsletter include upcoming cohort learning opportunities, inspiring pandemic innovations in K-12, digital equity, adult wellbeing, unfinished learning, and more.

The Learning Accelerator (TLA) — the national nonprofit working to make the ‘potential’ possible and practical for every teacher and learner — today released the first companion paper to its “Hop, Skip, Leapfrog” research project that aims to identify, codify, and make sense of new school system strategies and capabilities that have emerged during the

Educators have been working hard to serve students as we continue to navigate an exceptional school year. Teachers and leaders continue to put in place new tools and systems to address health and safety challenges (especially as many students, including my own elementary-aged children re-enter school buildings), improve remote and hybrid instruction, and dig in

Practical, guided activities that can help tackle small and large challenges immediately and realistically. Examples from several schools across the country that made meaningful improvements during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, The Learning Accelerator and Bellwether Education Partners released Real-Time Redesign, a toolkit that provides school and district leaders with an actionable, inclusive, and rapid process

How can school teams tackle meaningful, practical challenges of equity amidst the swirl of COVID-19? Over the last nine months, The Learning Accelerator and Bellwether Education Partners have been partnering with seven school districts to explore this question as part of TLA’s Always Ready for Learning Strategy Lab network.