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Where Real-Time Redesign Originated: Always Ready for Learning Strategy Lab

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Learning Accelerator, along with Bellwether Education Partners, created a new networked learning community focused on equity and resiliency called the Strategy Lab. The nine-month, pro bono, cohort-based learning experience supported seven school systems in their reopening planning in the fall and winter of 2020 through expert support and […]

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Strategy Lab Expert Talk Redux: Safe School Reopening

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a bevy of risks that affect almost every aspect of our lives. Chief among these risks is returning to in-person learning and the increased opportunity for the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. However, returning to in-person learning also greatly minimizes the risks associated with remote learning, which include loss […]

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If Personalized Learning Is Going to Work, Teacher Onboarding Must Improve. Here’s How.

This blog was originally published on EdSurge. In 2017, at the end of our third year of implementing personalized learning at Dallas ISD, our central personalized learning team conducted a series of stepback meetings with school leaders. We wanted to learn their biggest concerns around implementation, along with what was and wasn’t working for them. […]

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A Personalized Journey: Three lessons learned from school redesign

“How might we redesign school to better meet the needs of each student?” We posed this question to educators in the Dallas Independent School District back in 2014 with the hope of bringing together like-minded educators who wanted to redefine what’s possible for students and teachers in a large, urban district. This question still continues […]

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Keep your Messages Fresh and Relevant to Spark Engagement

Recent survey points the way to better messaging around personalized learning Over the past five years, The Learning Accelerator has highlighted how effective communications are a critical component of successful innovation in education. We’ve joined with other education leaders, organizations, and practitioners during this time to provide helpful tools and examples of how districts that […]

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Is Communications the Secret Sauce for Innovation?

Over the past several years, our organizations have been deeply involved in the national movement towards blended and personalized learning, both as implementation experts and catalysts for innovation. We have engaged with hundreds of districts between us and have witnessed a broad range of schools working to shift instructional practice to be more student-centered, data-driven, […]

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Leaders Learning Deeply with the Leadership in Blended Learning and Fuse RI

At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we believe that effective principal leadership is absolutely critical for creating and sustaining schools that foster deeper and personalized learning. Given this, as part of TLA’s next human capital initiative, we’re running two experiments aimed at supporting and increasing the capacity of these leaders as they engage in school redesign […]