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Helping Educators and Leaders Surface What Works, For Whom, and Under What Conditions

seeking and measuring broader aims / By Lacey Gonzales

Over the past few years, the context of education has dramatically changed as schools and systems grapple with the ongoing ramifications of emergency remote learning, lost instruction time, a growing student well-being crisis, and educator shortages. With all of this continuous change, a need exists to examine how well practices and policies set in place […]

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Catalyzing Collective Change Toward More Equitable Edtech Systems

digital equity, edtech, TLA updates / By Lacey Gonzales

Edtech can be a powerful tool in any school system’s efforts for equity when implemented effectively. However, rapidly changing technologies and slow-moving systems have led many schools and systems to report challenges in realizing this potential. So, how can we catalyze collective change toward more equitable edtech systems that promote powerful selection, implementation, and evaluation

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Engaging 3 Key Groups for Equity in Edtech

edtech / By Lacey Gonzales

When implemented thoughtfully and equitably, edtech has the power to accelerate learning and address persistent disparities. While academic edtech tools can make learning more inclusive and responsive to students’ interests and needs, edtech processes must incorporate input from stakeholders impacted by these tools. By examining the impact a school system’s edtech has on different participants,

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Using Data to Advocate for Equitable Practices

seeking and measuring broader aims / By Samantha Brumley

“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.” – John Lewis At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we are working to advance a research-informed vision for equitable teaching and learning. In doing so, we recognize the significant

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Vote for TLA Submissions at SXSW EDU 2024

TLA updates / By Lacey Gonzales

It’s that time of year again! The public voting period for SXSW EDU’s PanelPicker has arrived, and we would appreciate your help in bringing The Learning Accelerator (TLA) back to Austin, TX. As you consider sessions to support this year, please look into TLA’s sessions below and vote for your favorites. If you are not

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3 Ways to Improve Accessibility in Virtual Learning Environments

digital equity / By Lacey Gonzales

For students with disabilities, accessibility is a critical issue, but technology has played a significant role in improving access and working to ensure all students get what they need. Given assistive technology’s effect on improving accessibility, virtual learning is assumed to be even more accessible than in-person learning. But in The Learning Accelerator’s (TLA) work

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Asking the Right Questions to Improve Equity in Virtual & Hybrid Learning

digital equity / By Lacey Gonzales

In working to prove their worth in an ever-changing education landscape, virtual and hybrid schools across the country are looking to hone their craft and make improvements. Over the past year at The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we have supported 20 district-based virtual and hybrid programs to do just that, guiding them to identify actionable ways

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Improving Teacher Morale in Virtual Schools

adult wellbeing, deploying and developing experts, school design / By Lacey Gonzales

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 political football. Teacher job satisfaction hit an all-time low last year. Unsurprisingly, teachers flocked to virtual schools during the

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Learning Alongside Others Sparks Plymouth-Canton’s Virtual Redesign

deploying and developing experts, innovation, school design / By Lacey Gonzales

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 joined a network of peers facing similar challenges called Strategy Lab. Months later, Pelukas and the P-CCS virtual team

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The Future of Education Research and Measurement

innovation, seeking and measuring broader aims / By Lacey Gonzales

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 significance. However, at last month’s American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, we sought out sessions from a growing cadre of

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Helping Educators and Leaders Surface What Works, For Whom, and Under What Conditions

Catalyzing Collective Change Toward More Equitable Edtech Systems

Engaging 3 Key Groups for Equity in Edtech

Using Data to Advocate for Equitable Practices

Vote for TLA Submissions at SXSW EDU 2024

3 Ways to Improve Accessibility in Virtual Learning Environments

Asking the Right Questions to Improve Equity in Virtual & Hybrid Learning

Improving Teacher Morale in Virtual Schools

Learning Alongside Others Sparks Plymouth-Canton’s Virtual Redesign

The Future of Education Research and Measurement

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