Implementing Blended & Personalized Learning
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Remote Teaching and Learning
Find out how to design and implement effective remote teaching by building a strong foundation for self-direction, designing instruction using key quality drivers, and integrating specific blended learning practices to meet individual needs during remote instruction.
Station Rotation
Discover ways to set up a station rotation, deepen differentiation, support personalization, and develop students’ ownership and accountability through implementation.
Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities
Find out how to strategically instruct students with learning disabilities in a personalized classroom, ensuring rigor and high expectations for the whole student, as well as designing ways to build innovative staffing models that better serve all students’ needs.
Leadership Design Choices
Explore seven different tensions education leaders face, along with concrete examples and resources to lean on when scaling innovation and leading system change in a way that maximizes benefits to teachers and students.
Research Primer
Investigate critical decision points when measuring to inform and improve teaching and learning practices as well as key considerations when launching a researcher-practitioner partnership.
Open Educational Resources
Learn about Open Educational Resources (OER), where to start, how to use them to personalize lessons and assessments, and support teachers in creating and implementing OER effectively.
Teacher Onboarding
Explore three key components that need to be included in an effective onboarding experience for teachers: knowing the “why,” knowing the school, and knowing the community.
Data-Driven Instruction
Discover specific ways to implement data-driven instruction through data-informed grouping and differentiation, engaging students in their own data, as well as creating the structures and supports needed to foster intentional data use across schools and systems.
Supporting Students Who Are Learning English
Learn about concrete ways to support students who are learning English by leveraging their home language in their general education classroom as well as implementing strategic supports to ensure students are being supported with language strategies across all content areas.
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Perceptions of Learner Behaviors and Actions During Personalized, Remote Learning: An Analysis of the Instructional Look Fors in LUSD
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Driving Quality in Remote Learning
This document summarizes key findings from The Learning Accelerator's review of academic and professional research around effective remote learning and instruction.
Leadership Design Choices
The Learning Accelerator has developed a new framework to help leaders understand and navigate through competing approaches about how to lead system change in a way that maximizes benefits to teachers and students.
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How can blended learning work in a remote setting?
Quality remote teaching and learning are critical to ensure equitable outcomes for students. Educators should create a strong foundation for self-directed student learning and implement effective teaching through the strategic use of technology, pedagogy, and relationship-building. Explore our framework, related training, and implementation resources.
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School Profiles
Explore strategies from a diverse group of schools. Here you can find an overview of each school’s model to understand how individual strategies work together on each campus.
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Conditions for Success & Scale
Learn more about our Innovative Learning Implementation Framework and explore strategies, advice, and tools around essential supports that enable system-level success.
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Insights
Learn more from experts and innovators about ideas, approaches, and comprehensive lessons learned across blended and personalized practices and schools, as well as challenges educators and leaders face in the remote space.
Getting some training on making our distance learning better for students, and I can not recommend the work of TLA enough. Very well thought-out work to help students!
Twitter user, in response to TLA's "One Thing" Insight Series
The network provides dedicated time to collaborate around the victories, the struggles, and the future of personalized learning. We learn from one another. We challenge one another. And when the common issues we face are brought to the table, we are able to rise together to meet them.
Innovation Directors Network (IDN) Participant
During one of our many deep dives into the black hole of internet searches, looking for strategies and tips you can use to #ReThinkHighSchool, we came across a holy grail of resources from The Learning Accelerator. They analyzed hundreds of schools and systems nationwide to identify the best instructional and operational practices for implementing blended and personalized learning. Here’s the best part: All of these resources are easy-to-find with an awesome category system you can filter by topic, grade, and audience.
Twitter user
We know that the theory of personalized learning is powerful but the actual nuts and bolts of implementations is extremely difficult. A lot of the work that TLA does from the practices website to their data work make personalized learning concrete with voices from actual teachers and administrators who are practitioners.
Innovation Directors Network (IDN) Participant