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TLA Update, July 2022
The last four weeks have felt like a roller coaster transition from school to summer. My girls wrapped up third and first grades at our local school...
Step 3: Powering Up - Developing a Team Focused on Collective Action
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” – Margaret Wheatley. In any industry, the...
Flexibility in the Face of Volatility: Three Shifts for Managing Enrollment Fluctuations in District-based Virtual Schools
In response to pandemic-induced school closures, virtual schools across the country saw enrollment rates skyrocket. At Highline Public Schools’ Highline Virtual Academy in Washington state, for example, enrollment increased from 200 students in...
Step 2: Learning to Sprint - Leveraging Small Wins Along the Road Toward Large-Scale Change
Referring to all aspects of life as a marathon has become something of a cliche. While the metaphor may feel harmless in many ways, this perspective is problematic for a few reasons. For starters, Pheidippides – the soldier who ran about 25 miles to...
New Tools Support Our Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid Cohorts
In March 2022, The Learning Accelerator (TLA) launched the first of three Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid cohorts to tackle the challenge of developing more effective, engaging, and equitable virtual or hybrid learning environments. Working through...
TLA Update, June 2022
On Tuesday, May 24, I was wrapping up preparation for testimony I had planned to give the next day to the Texas Commission on Virtual Education on virtual and hybrid learning.
Step 1: Designing Collective Futures - Bridging Community Voices & Organizational History to Support Change
Sustainable change in education begins with sharing your needs and vision for what is possible. Although this might seem obvious at first, there are ways we’ve seen leaders supercharge their approach to the task, integrating history with a...
Sustainable Change, One Step at a Time
We are living in a tumultuous time for education. If you’re feeling more exhausted and frustrated than ever before, you are not alone. The COVID pandemic has created a marathon of emergencies and urgent initiatives, leaving educators and ed leaders...
Our Response to the Uvalde, TX Shooting
At TLA, we work to ensure every child gets the education they need to reach their full and unique potential. This vision is simply impossible in a world where our students and educators cannot learn and work together without the looming threat and...
TLA Update, May 2022
The last few months have slowly but surely begun to feel more like life before the COVID-19 pandemic. With case counts receding, my children have returned to school without masks, and the TLA team is preparing to come together (vaccinated) at our...
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