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The pandemic forced many to change how they teach the arts. What can we learn from them?
Few of us would argue that engaging students in the arts — visual, music, dance — is an important part of school. It’s well documented that arts engagement supports academic and social development, but with competing demands on time and budgets,...
Where Real-Time Redesign Originated: Always Ready for Learning Strategy Lab
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Learning Accelerator, along with Bellwether Education Partners, created a new networked learning community focused on equity and resiliency called the Strategy Lab. The nine-month, pro bono, cohort-based...
Every education leader deserves expert coaching to manage through and beyond COVID-19
Every education leader deserves expert coaching to manage through and beyond COVID-19: Here’s what we learned from trying to deliver on this vision When schools abruptly closed for in-person learning last spring, hundreds of thousands of district...
How can we help? 5 ways to shift in-person professional development online
Great professional developers, trainers, and coaches lean on a variety of face-to-face tools and supports when working with teachers in person. Through actions like whispering in a participant’s ear to give specific guidance, “reading the room” and...
If Personalized Learning Is Going to Work, Teacher Onboarding Must Improve. Here’s How.
This blog was originally published on EdSurge. In 2017, at the end of our third year of implementing personalized learning at Dallas ISD, our central personalized learning team conducted a series of stepback meetings with school leaders. We wanted...
The New Role of the Workplace and Creating Learning Microsystems
I often look at the world around me to better understand the world we need to create in our schools and educational ecosystems. In this journey, I bump up against a lot of analogs that give us lessons we can apply to better enhance the interactions...
Rethinking Time in the Blended and Personalized Classroom: Strategies and tools to maximize technology’s effect on teaching and learning
TLA periodically shares perspectives from educators and other voices from the field. The views and opinions expressed in these guest posts are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of TLA. If you are interested in...
Failing Forward: What school innovation networks have taught me about learning from failures
Do you think about failure as a way to look at how to transform education? The last two years have enhanced my abilities to do just that! I credit the state and national innovative leadership networks that I belong to for opening my eyes to look at...
Behind the Curtain of Flex Time
This blog first appeared on EdWeek’s Next Gen Learning in Action column. With all the interest in innovative school models, many schools are creating “flex time” periods during the day for students to increase student agency. We at Silicon Schools...
Seven Top Decisions For Leaders Scaling Innovation
This blog was originally posted on Education Next. Networks of schools across the country are increasingly using more personalized and blended learning strategies to create equitable access to high-quality instruction, increase student engagement...
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