Remote/Hybrid Learning Guidance & Resources

In these challenging times, how will we accelerate learning to ensure schools and districts can serve every child with rigor and equity, now and into the future?

In response to educators’ most pressing challenges, TLA is committed to providing curated resources and high-quality, actionable guidance on creating safe and effective remote, hybrid, and in-person learning experiences. Our work described below will help districts ensure personalized, mastery-based learning can happen anywhere, anytime.

For concrete ways to start implementing blended learning in a remote setting, visit these additional resources.

Coaching for Immediate Support

Leaders are rapidly transforming their schools and systems in the midst of incredible uncertainty — they need individualized support. TLA created the Always Ready for Learning Coaching Network, a national, philanthropically supported initiative providing K-12 school district leaders with pro bono, rapid, and customized guidance to help them carry out effective remote and hybrid teaching and learning.

• Always Ready for Learning Coaching Network
• Always Ready for Learning Resource Bank
• Always Ready for Learning Field Notes

Implementing Remote/Hybrid Teaching and Learning

Quality remote teaching and hybrid instruction are critical to ensure equitable outcomes for every child in the country at this moment in time. TLA has developed a research-informed framework and related training and implementation resources to help educators create a strong foundation for self-directed student learning and effective teaching through the strategic use of technology, pedagogy, and relationship-building.

• Driving Quality in Remote Learning: A framework for research-informed remote experiences for K-12 learners
• Problem of Practice: Remote Teaching and Learning
• Problem of Practice: Strategies for Remote and Hybrid Learning Contexts
• Remote Learning: Planning for Improvement
• Remote Learning Excellence: Three Session PD Training for Educators and Leaders
• TLA's One Thing: Resources for Teachers and Leaders Around Remote Learning
• How can we help? 5 ways to shift in-person PD online
  
• Professional development strategies to support teachers during the shift to remote learning
  

Reopening Schools Safely

The Parabola Project brings together experts in health and education to offer leaders strategies and working tools to minimize risks while maximizing learning when reopening schools. A partnership between TLA and Ariadne Labs (a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), the resources take into consideration a balanced view of risk and assist school leaders in creating and executing their plans to reopen schools for in-person learning.

• Parabola Project
• School Reopening Readiness Guide
• Resources for Implementation
• School Reopening Snapshots
  

Building Resiliency and Equity

The Always Ready for Learning Strategy Lab is a project from TLA, in partnership with Bellwether Education Partners, working to accelerate the development of a more resilient and equitable education future. The Strategy Lab supported seven districts in resiliency planning for the short-term (fall 2020 re-opening) as well as the long-term (sustainable, equitable models) through a networked improvement community and 1:1 planning support. The tools below can help any district or school system make practical, meaningful improvements to teaching and learning.

• Real-Time Redesign Toolkit
• Always Ready for Learning Strategy Lab
• Always Ready for Learning Field Notes

Partner Resources

TLA has joined hands with a number of education-focused organizations across the country to bring resources, tools, and solutions for remote learning to those who need them the most.

• Educating All Learners
• GetSetUp for Remote Learning
• Inclusive Technology During the COVID-19 Crisis
• Learning Apart, Staying Connected: A Distance Learning Playbook
• Learning Keeps Going: COVID-19 Education Coalition
• National Center for Learning Disabilities COVID-19 Educator Resources
• Preparing for School Reopening with Equity at the Core
• ENGAGE EQUITABLY: Communication Resources for Schools at a Time of COVID-19 & Beyond

Reach Out

We know this time has been challenging for practitioners and leaders alike, and we would love to hear from you. Email us with questions, comments, or resources you'd like to share, and follow TLA on Twitter to join the conversation and stay up-to-date with our latest learnings.