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Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Leveraging Collaborative Leadership When Making Long- and Short-Term Financial Decisions
Scott Milam is the co-founder and managing director of Afton Partners LLC, a professional services firm focused on forging an alignment between financial strategies and educational priorities. With over 25 years of experience providing management...
Planting Trees Under Which You May Never Sit: The long-term work of school transformation
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson Transforming schools and districts from industrial models to student-centered ones is bold, noble, worthy work that requires a sustained...
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...
Supporting and Engaging Diverse Learners within Blended and Personalized Learning
With support and feedback from the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), we recently launched a three-part “Problem of Practice” series focused on supporting diverse learners utilizing specific strategies from the Blended and...
Next Steps in Personalized Learning’s Equity Agenda: Clarifying Definitions, Goals and Measurement
In the last two and a half years that I have conducted research on the implementation of personalized learning, many principals and teachers have told me that equity is the core motivation for their instructional shift. Indeed, teachers frequently...
Personalized learning and equity: The means or the end?
Despite our best efforts, educational inequity persists across the country. This inequity currently takes a variety of forms including achievement, discipline, graduation, and opportunity gaps. Proponents and opponents of technology-enabled...
Reflections on TLA’s Blended & Personalized Learning Practices at Work Project: What We Learned and What’s Next
The Learning Accelerator’s mission is to catalyze the implementation of high-quality blended learning. TLA has worked diligently to capture and share some of the best blended and personalized instructional practices from across the country. Our...
State Profiles in Innovation
How Four States Are Advancing Blended and Personalized Learning Statewide Today we are releasing State Profiles in Innovation: How Four States Are Advancing Blended and Personalized Learning Statewide (“Profiles”). This new publication is produced...
How To Choose A Blended Learning Professional Services Partner
School districts often ask me, “Who can help us implement high-quality blended learning?” And my answer is always, “It depends on which phase of the project you are in and your organization’s strengths and weaknesses.” Some districts are starting...
So You Think You Want to Innovate?
A bold process to reimagine the structure and purpose of school. A multi-year strategy to “go blended” across the state. A new district request for proposal (RFP) inviting school teams to personalize learning experiences for students. Even casual...
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