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Applications Now Open to Join TLA’s Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid Learning

Last month, we announced an exciting new project at TLA, our Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid Learning opportunity for districts and school systems across the United States. Today, we are excited to share that applications are now open for any districts and school systems interested in taking part in this experience! Apply now for The […]

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Solving Problems in Uncertain Times

change management, family engagement, innovation, professional development, school design / By Samantha Brumley

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, shortages in critical positions, and ongoing closures due to the pandemic, the need to navigate through uncertainty with limited resources has

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Announcing TLA’s Virtual and Hybrid Learning Strategy Lab

student-centered learning, TLA updates / By Samantha Brumley

The Learning Accelerator is excited to announce a new cohort-based learning opportunity for districts across the country to explore how virtual and hybrid capabilities can advance equitable, personalized, and accelerated learning for students. As brick-and-mortar schools reopen across the country, many school systems are exploring how – and if – they will build upon and

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Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Opportunities to Shift from a “Teaching” Profession to a “Learning” Profession

deploying and developing experts, professional development, student-centered learning / By Samantha Brumley

Kristi Ransick is an education consultant with over 25 years experience working in school and curricular innovation. In the wake of initial pandemic-related school closures, Kristi supported work with the Chief Council of State School Officers to develop a “Restart and Recovery” playbook for system leaders and supported members of TLA’s Strategy Lab as they

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Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Leveraging Collaborative Leadership When Making Long- and Short-Term Financial Decisions

change management, innovation, policy, school design / By Samantha Brumley

Scott Milam is the co-founder and managing director of Afton Partners LLC, a professional services firm focused on forging an alignment between financial strategies and educational priorities. With over 25 years of experience providing management and advisory services for clients in the commercial and public sectors, Scott supports school districts, charter networks, state education agencies,

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Leveraging the Urgency of ‘Now:’ Fostering Remote Family Engagement to Identify and Address Student Needs

family engagement, seeking and measuring broader aims / By Samantha Brumley

At Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), we are committed to ensuring every student is known, cared for, and respected. This ethos became a guiding light for the ways in which we designed our strategies and supports for our school community during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a moment rife with so much uncertainty, we wanted to

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Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: “Engagement Through Inquiry”

creativity, innovation, seeking and measuring broader aims, student-centered learning / By Samantha Brumley

Diana Laufenberg is the Executive Director at Inquiry Schools, a nonprofit working to create and support student-centered learning environments that are inquiry-driven, project-based and utilize modern technology. For 16 years, Diana was a secondary social studies teacher in Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona and Pennsylvania. She most recently taught at the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in Philadelphia,

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Ensuring a Successful Return to In-Person Learning

change management, creating new opportunities / By Samantha Brumley

This post was originally published on the ASCD Blog on August 15, 2021. As educators and students prepare to reenter school buildings, there will be inevitable challenges—not only around shifting back to yet another setting (even a previously familiar one!), but also around supporting teacher and student mindsets. Teachers may have one vision of what

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Adult Learning Culture: An Underrated Ingredient for Success in Uncertain Times

adult wellbeing, deploying and developing experts, professional development / By Samantha Brumley

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 an uncertain future, the article explores several key shifts—from investment in universal broadband to the adoption of competency-based pedagogy—that if

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Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Leveraging technology to “do education differently” and focus on equity, social-emotional learning (SEL)

edtech, evolving delivery, seeking and measuring broader aims, social-emotional learning / By Samantha Brumley

Dr. Jilliam Joe is the Vice President of Learning Insights at LEAP Innovations. Jilliam has dedicated her career as an educational researcher to measuring effective teaching practices. At LEAP, she provides research and evaluation leadership for LEAP’s programs and leads their personalized-learning educator competency framework development. As part of our Hop, Skip, Leapfrog interviews with

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Applications Now Open to Join TLA’s Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid Learning

Solving Problems in Uncertain Times

Announcing TLA’s Virtual and Hybrid Learning Strategy Lab

Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Opportunities to Shift from a “Teaching” Profession to a “Learning” Profession

Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Leveraging Collaborative Leadership When Making Long- and Short-Term Financial Decisions

Leveraging the Urgency of ‘Now:’ Fostering Remote Family Engagement to Identify and Address Student Needs

Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: “Engagement Through Inquiry”

Ensuring a Successful Return to In-Person Learning

Adult Learning Culture: An Underrated Ingredient for Success in Uncertain Times

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