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Nurturing the Fertile Ground of Open Educational Resources from Districts Around the Country
In total, there are 98 Launch Districts and 23 Ambassador Districts in the #GoOpen initiative, a nationwide Office of Ed Tech campaign to support school districts adopting and implementing Open Educational Resources (OER). A Launch District makes...
Open Educational Resources: An Urgent Priority
Every child deserves a highly effective and equitable education that equips them with the mastery of rigorous academic standards, mindset, and other non-academic capacities they need to reach their full and unique potential. Engaging, rigorous...
TLA's Top Blogs of 2019
Before we head into a brand new year, we’re taking time to reflect on the innovation and achievement in education we’ve had the opportunity to witness in 2019. The TLA team and guest experts highlighted exciting work on our blog throughout this...
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...
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...
Need Help Implementing Innovative Learning? The ILEx is Here!
Schools and systems across the country are pursuing innovative approaches to make learning more personalized, mastery-based, and supportive of whole child development. Doing this work is complex, and given the variety of contexts, goals, and assets...
Research Community @ DLAC
This post was originally published on the Digital Learning Collaborative blog. The inaugural Digital Learning Annual Conference (DLAC) took place on April 1-3, 2019, and one of the highlights of the event for me was the prominent and focused...
Digital Citizenship: Focusing on the what, why, and how
The call to teach digital citizenship has been heard by schools around the world, yet there are a few schools who question the value, purpose, and position of teaching digital citizenship within the classroom. Many of those questions stem from a...
Crafting a “Data Vision”
"Information consumes attention. A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." - Herbert Simon We know that all effective teachers use data to inform instruction, but with the integration of technology in classrooms and the need and...
Stuck in the Cycle: What teachers really face when we ask them to use data in their classrooms
Educators are masters of working with scarce resources, including something most limited and valuable – time. Time is always in high demand but short supply, and teachers are constantly forced to make critical, and often tough, choices about where...
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