Just over a year ago, the TLA team launched a project to better understand blended and personalized learning practices in schools across America. As a result of our research in hundreds of classrooms, today we are launching a new site called Blended and Personalized Practices at Work. In Practices at Work, we share the approaches […]
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The Learning Accelerator’s new platform offers educators real-world strategies for data use, personalized instruction, and mastery-based progression Cupertino, CA — August 22, 2016 — The Learning Accelerator, a national nonprofit catalyzing the transformation of American K-12 education through blended learning, today released a new collection of resources designed specifically for educators who are implementing blended
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At The Learning Accelerator, we use the word “catalyze” to describe our work. We act as an agent to spark change – identifying opportunities and challenges, sharing resources and approaches, and promoting and creating space for collaboration. We’ve launched initiatives and organizations, and helped connect different partners to accelerate the pace of change. Today, I’m
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Personalized learning practices are increasingly being used in a variety of K-12 settings. These include public, private, and charter schools; at elementary, middle, and high school levels; in many content areas—including core subjects like reading, English language arts, math, and writing; and with students from various backgrounds.The current pace of growth in the implementation of
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Over the last nine months, TLA has been engaged in a deep research effort to better understand teaching and learning in blended and personalized learning environments. We have learned a great deal and identified some really terrific practices at a number of schools nationally. We plan to share out as much as we can in
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Whenever a new study comes out that says blended learning is effective, or blended learning isn’t effective, the first thing I do is take a close read of the methods to see what the authors really mean by “blended learning” and “effectiveness.” Sometimes it’s very clear how these terms were defined, but frustratingly it is
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The state of New Jersey has been quietly spurring a wave of innovation that is gathering force and speed. The wave is engaging schools and districts, collaborators across the nation, and community partners close to home. The initiative – innovateNJ – is creating a corps of innovators who push, from each of their different roles
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Beth Rabbitt named CEO; New focus on personalization, data use, and competency-based progression Cupertino, CA — March 18, 2016 — The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing blended learning across the nation, today announced that its next phase of work will focus on clarifying exactly how blended learning happens in the classroom to
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As I shared in last week’s post, the TLA team has spent a lot of time over the last six months seeking clarity on what exactly we mean when we say we’re an organization transforming schools through blended learning. Over the course of hundreds of conversations and visiting an equal number of classrooms throughout the
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Since our founding, The Learning Accelerator’s belief has been that blended learning is an innovation with the potential to transform the education of millions of students in American K-12 schools. By using technology to help teachers and students more deeply understand and respond to individual needs, we think schools can better reach their goals: effective,
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