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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...
Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Seeing and Supporting the Whole Student
Malika Ali is a Managing Partner at the Highlander Institute and is responsible for the Institute’s evolving and iterative pedagogical approach to change, as well as program implementation across all classrooms, schools and districts. She is...
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...
The Learning Accelerator and Bellwether Education Partners Release Real-Time Redesign Toolkit to Help Schools Improve Equity and Resiliency
Practical, guided activities that can help tackle small and large challenges immediately and realistically.Examples from several schools across the country that made meaningful improvements during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, The Learning...
Tools for School Financial Planning During COVID
In the spring of 2020, The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a national nonprofit, launched the Always Ready for Learning (ARL) Coaching Network, a partnership among 13 education coaching organizations to provide K-12 leaders with pro-bono, customized...
With Remote Professional Learning, The Opportunities Are Boundless
This post was originally published on Getting Smart. Ever since March 2020, many educators have felt as though they've been thrown into the "deep end" with little to nothing to hold onto. The rapid shift to remote learning forced teachers to...
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...
Focusing on Academic Rigor in the Face of Disruption
One school’s experience using instructional materials to advance personalized, mastery-based learning By: Kristi Ransick In the midst of the uncertainty and change that has unfolded in school systems in 2020, one topic that isn’t getting...
Three Steps to Building an Effective Remote Learning Experience
Education is more than content. It is a place for support and connection, so let’s do it right! As of March 2020, a lot of life as we knew it changed. As school buildings closed and moved to remote forms of engagement and instruction, the pain of...
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...
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