Stories of Learning
Podcast
Podcast
Tune into TLA Stories of Learning as we share insights, learnings, and conversations with real-world educators and education leaders as they make effective, equitable innovative learning a reality in their schools.
Explore our series to dive deeper into topics important to advancing learning for all K12 students
Beyond Brick and Mortar
Dive into conversations The Learning Accelerator had with leaders from established K-12 hybrid and virtual learning programs, examining what made their programs a success and what they’ve learned along the way in order to capture, codify, and share their stories with the field.
What Will We Take With Us?
Tune into our leadership series, “What Will We Take With Us?” to hear how education leaders rose to tackling the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they’re working to take what they’ve learned into a future that supports student-centered learning across the K-12 field.
Explore the last episodes
December 2, 2022
In this first episode, we chat with Megan Palevich, former Head of School at Laurel Springs School about their fully virtual K-12 program that emphasizes personalization and one-to-one work between students and teachers, flexible schedules to accommodate learners whose schedules or needs don't align with traditional seat-time requirements, and a strong community among staff, students, and families.
September 11, 2023
In this episode, we chat with Justin Louder, Associate Vice Provost for e-Learning at Texas Tech University K-12 (TTU K-12), about their long history of service to students who have sought out flexible options for their learning, and how their program operates through a student-centered lens to help learners work flexibly to engage while facing physical and mental health challenges, career obligations, and other obligations, as well as their orientation toward immersive community exploration and engagement in the context of virtual learning.
September 29, 2021
On this final episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, we speak with Scott Muri, Superintendent of Ector County Independent School District in Texas, about how leaders worked to make the most of the pandemic to accelerate the implementation of goals that benefitted the entire school community, ranging from expanding connectivity and internet access, to focusing on personalized professional development, to forging stronger, more meaningful connections between schools and student families.
