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How an Injury Made Me a More Accessibility-Focused Digital Citizen
I’ve been fortunate to live most of my web-browsing life as an able-bodied person. I’ve never encountered any difficulties being able to find, see, and otherwise experience online content, which is crucial in an age where people are so likely to...
Structure Helps Promote Student Agency
This blog first appeared on EdWeek’s Next Gen Learning in Action column. At Silicon Schools Fund we invest in schools that take new approaches to education. We recently wrote that many schools are starting to create flex time periods during the...
TLA’s Measurement Fellowship: New knowledge for the field
As part of our work to catalyze measurement that increases our evidence base of equitable, effective blended practices, TLA is currently piloting a one-year Fellowship to support research that advances our measurement agenda. Our goal is to help...
LearnLaunch’s Innovation Showcase: How I was inspired and what I learned from students
“What if you could eradicate the fear of public speaking? We’re working to design a virtual reality program to help people get over that fear.” The high school students making this pitch seem to have benefited from their own innovation. They are...
Heart Smart & Head Smart: Reflections on a Year of Giving Teachers the Support They Need to Make the Leap to Personalized Learning
While the shift from “differentiated instruction” to “personalized learning” seems like a reasonable enough commitment to make philosophically, the changes in practice that this generation of teachers will need to make to realize the potential of...
Solving the Problem of "Teaching to the Middle"
After 10 years of teaching, I have streamlined my approach to identifying effective personalization practices. Recently, while working on a project to design teacher prep for blended and personalized learning, I had the unique opportunity to visit...
Attending iNACOL? Mark your calendars for these valuable TLA sessions
The Learning Accelerator team will be busy at iNACOL this year, with many of our partners and grantees involved in compelling sessions and/or pre-conference workshops. Please join us! Sunday, November 8 A Step-By-Step Guide to Communications...
Calling all developers: Are you ready to create OER?
K-12 Collaborative releases RFP for new education resources Yesterday at the Open Education in Washington, D.C. we announced the release of the K-12 OER Collaborative’s Request for Proposals to create full-course Open Education Resource (OER)...
Deeper and Blended Learning Go Hand in Hand
To borrow from and paraphrase Steve Jobs, human beings are relatively slow, lumbering creatures. We're far from the most efficient movers, but put us on a bicycle, and we blow away every other animal on the planet. It's amazing what we can do and...
The Learning Accelerator Awards $780,000 Grant to BetterLesson
Partnership will profile work of 10 master blended learning teachers Cupertino, CA – May 14, 2014 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts across...
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