TLA has joined forces as a research partner to Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) in its efforts to develop personalized, competency-based professional learning pathways for its facilitators (i.e., teachers). Through this work, LUSD seeks to cultivate the same mindset in educators that it spent the past decade fostering in students — that we are all learners — and therefore professional growth for facilitators should be targeted, personalized, and data-driven. LUSD investigated several strategies centered on instructional practices aligned to its student-centered framework for personalized learning to make this vision a reality.
We explored the link between various professional learning approaches and changes in student experience and achievement. Find links to results from all five years of the grant, below.
Explore Resources
- Personalizing Learning for Educators: Measuring What Works (Research Reports)
- Teacher and School Leader Grant: Impact At-A-Glance
- TLA Blog: Looking Back and Looking Forward: Lessons from Lindsay Unified School District
- TLA Blog: LUSD Personalizes Learning for Educators
- Getting Smart: Defining and Measuring the ‘Personal’ in Personalized Learning
- What Are Instructional Look Fors? (Video)
- Instructional Look Fors Research at Lindsay Unified School District (Video)
- Instructional Look Fors Guide (Website)
- Getting Smart: 5 Research-Based Recommendations for Remote Learning: Lessons from LUSD
- Measuring Personalized Professional Learning: A Three-Year Study of What Works Best, For Whom, Under What Conditions, and Why (Webinar)
- Setting up a Residency Program: The What, Where, and How to Make it Work for Your System (Report)
