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Ensuring Quality EdTech Investments: Two Questions For System Leaders
September marks a turning point for the K-12 sector. Since March 2020, the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund has infused billions of dollars into school systems to aid pandemic recovery efforts designed to accelerate...
Is It a Problem or a Mess?
No amount of change around kids’ core experiences in school – be it in the form of additional tutoring, mentors, or summer and after-school programming – can sufficiently address the urgent need to change what happens at the center of kids’ and...
Supporting Students with SEL Strategies
As we’re approaching assessment season and spring breaks, students find themselves caught in a whirlwind of emotions surrounding time away from traditional schedules and a break from their studies. In my time as a teacher and school leader, I...
To Help Teachers Survive the Next Few Weeks, Focus on Creativity
The holiday season brings both happiness and hardship. The three-week period between Thanksgiving and the winter break is marked by celebrations as well as disrupted schedules. While some students become exuberant in their anticipation of vacations,...
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...
New Guide: Research & Measurement for Education Leaders
Whether looking to improve student learning, educator wellbeing, or community capacity, schools and districts find themselves needing to engage in measurement. Our new measurement guide will help school and system leaders engage in inquiry to better...
Sandra Licón Joins TLA Board of Directors
The Learning Accelerator welcomes philanthropic and nonprofit leader Sandra Licón to Board of Directors September 28, 2023 — The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a national nonprofit accelerating individual, organizational, and sector learning to...
TLA Update, Explore Our New Data Advocacy Guide
How educators, families, students, and others can use data to advocate for more equitable change this school year.
Using Data to Advocate for Equitable Practices
“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.” – John Lewis At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we are working to advance a research-informed vision for...
The Future of Education Research and Measurement
For decades, quantitative, randomized control trials (RCTs) have been considered the gold standard of education research. The What Works Clearinghouse even prioritizes studies that randomly assign participants to conditions and show statistical...
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