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Step 1: Designing Collective Futures - Bridging Community Voices & Organizational History to Support Change
Sustainable change in education begins with sharing your needs and vision for what is possible. Although this might seem obvious at first, there are ways we’ve seen leaders supercharge their approach to the task, integrating history with a...
Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Leveraging Collaborative Leadership When Making Long- and Short-Term Financial Decisions
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...
Adult Learning Culture: An Underrated Ingredient for Success in Uncertain Times
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...
TLA's DEI Principles: Committing to Action
While school is technically “out,” educators across the country are hard at work reflecting on the past and planning for the future. From catching up on essential reading, to taking over whiteboards in quiet district offices, to piloting changes...
Hit Pause: 3 Steps to Bring Humanity into Decision-Making Processes This Summer
Inside the word "emergency" is "emerge;" from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters. - Rebecca Solnit “Unprecedented” has become the oft-used term to describe this...
Celebrating Pride in Schools: TLA Team Viewpoints
A core component of whole-child education is supporting student identity development while building an inclusive, caring community. At The Learning Accelerator, we believe that personalizing learning for students includes creating a safe, caring...
What does remote DEI look like for you?
This article was originally posted on Medium. Back in 2019, The Learning Accelerator (TLA) partnered with six other remote organizations based in education to form the Remote DEI Collective (RDC), a community of practice focused on the...
Share strategies (not germs!) in 2021
Before the end of last year, I was given the amazing opportunity to meet with K-12 educators from all over the country and hear about what was making them and their students happy and engaged during these strange times. I wanted to capture specific...
Are You Ready? Real-World Support for Reopening
The Parabola Project is a unique, cross-sector initiative that brings together education expertise from The Learning Accelerator and public health expertise from Ariadne Labs. The project rapidly identifies, develops, and shares strategies to...
DEI Work Is More Important Than Ever. But How Do We Do It Remotely?
This piece was originally posted on EdSurge. Widespread protests, sparked by the killings of Black people at the hands of police, have led to a global conversation on racial discrimination. How can companies take action to meaningfully foster...
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