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Helping Educators and Leaders Surface What Works, For Whom, and Under What Conditions
Over the past few years, the context of education has dramatically changed as schools and systems grapple with the ongoing ramifications of emergency remote learning, lost instruction time, a growing student well-being crisis, and educator...
Using Design Thinking to Solve System Challenges
How do you unite a diverse set of organizations that believe in the same cause but haven’t worked collectively yet? And how do you ensure meaningful change and impact results from bringing the leaders of these organizations together? This is exactly...
Investigating Creativity in the Classroom: Research Tools for Teachers and Leaders
Creativity is the competence to leverage self-interests, motivation, imagination, and prior knowledge in flexible ways1 to generate, evaluate, or improve ideas; imagine new ways of solving problems;2 forge new connections — across content and...
Student-Centered Environments Foster Independent Learners
At a recent conference session on student-centered learning, the facilitator asked participants to wrestle with the question, “When did you become an independent learner?” My discussion partner Charli — a high school student who wouldn’t describe...
Step 4: Championing Sustainable Change - Creating systems for leaders, teams, and their initiatives
The never-ending cycle of growth and change in schools often elicits mixed reactions. Some see these new trends as much-needed progress, while others “see déjà vu all over again.” Evolving science and research, alongside increased complexity that...
Welcoming the Newest TLA Team Members
As The Learning Accelerator closed out 2021 and welcomed a new year, we also got to celebrate the addition of several new teammates to the organization. These team members – with decades of experience, notable accomplishments, and demonstrated...
Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Effectively Shifting Professional Development (PD) During a Pandemic
Dr. Sarah Johnson is the CEO of Teaching Lab. She is passionate about strengthening outcomes for students by improving professional development for teachers. Teaching Lab strives to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning...
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...
Innovating Teaching and Learning This School Year? Find the Right Experts with ILEx!
August has arrived, and school leaders are busy planning for a strong launch to the school year. Many are focused on implementing innovative approaches to make learning more personalized, mastery-based, and supportive of whole child development....
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