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Gwen Baker Joins TLA Board of Directors
The Learning Accelerator welcomes nonprofit and education technology leader Gwen Baker to Board of Directors August 24, 2018 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit catalyzing high-quality blended learning across the United States, announced...
Find TLA at iNACOL 2018
We are looking forward to seeing many of you next week in Nashville at the 2018 iNACOL Symposium: Driving the Transformation of Learning! The Learning Accelerator (TLA) is thrilled to be presenting alongside many of our partner organizations and...
TLA's New Tools Enabled Team Success in a Remote Setting
As we described in the first post in our work culture series, The Learning Accelerator is a small, remote-first organization with a team of 12 people stretched over four time zones and eight states. Much of the work of our internal Operations team...
TLA Measurement Fellowship: A new blended teaching assessment tool emerges
As blended teaching becomes more prevalent throughout the country, leaders in the field are looking for how to measure and assess quality blended teaching skills. As part of my TLA Measurement Fellowship, I distilled the information that I gleaned...
SXSWedu PanelPicker is Live
The public voting period for SXSWedu is upon us, and we would love your help in bringing The Learning Accelerator back to Austin! Would you mind taking a few minutes to vote for our sessions described below? (If you aren't registered to vote for...
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...
Exciting New Initiatives Provide Hope for Improved Edtech Purchasing Across K-12 Schools
Education purchasing should be simple, right? If you need some pencils or paper, you can get them at the nearest supply store. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. We often overlook everything a district needs to buy – from mundane things like...
Why the Recent Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Data ‘Breach’ Matters for Students
This blog was originally published on the Brookings Institution's Brown Center Chalkboard. When 80 million Facebook users’ data were found to be in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, users of the social media platform–and Congress–decided it was...
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...
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