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Hop, Skip, Leapfrog

Hop, Skip, Leapfrog explores the concrete ways in which schools and systems pursued student-centered innovation during COVID-19, sharing resources and knowledge from school leaders across the country about advancing learning for all students into the future.

Real-Time Redesign Toolkit

The Real-Time Redesign toolkit is a free and open resource providing school system leaders with an actionable, inclusive, and rapid process for making targeted improvement towards more equitable and resilient teaching and learning.

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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Hybrid Learning With a Focus on In-Person Time for Labs, Hands-On Activities, and Collaboration
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How do I ensure students are engaged with each other and the content in a hybrid and/or remote learning environment?
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Setting up a Residency Program: The What, Where, and How to Make it Work for Your System
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Shifting Towards Assessment-Aligned Trimester Reporting
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Simultaneous Learning: How can I effectively work with in-person and remote students at the same time?
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Activity: "State of..." Team Mad Lib Protocol
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Deepening Arts Enrichment Through Three-Week Focus Scheduling
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IDEO Co-Designing Schools Toolkit: Phase 6 Showcase
Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
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Rolling Out Centrally Developed Curricular Blueprints To Support Remote Learning
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Addressing Digital Equity in Austin ISD
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Pilot

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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.

Real-Time Redesign

TLA and Bellwether Education Partners developed the Real-Time Redesign toolkit to help schools take steps toward sustainable, equitable, and resilient learning, sharing meaningful improvements schools made during COVID-19.

Hop, Skip, Leapfrog

The Learning Accelerator spoke with education leaders across the country to understand how their schools and systems worked through the COVID-19 pandemic – and what learnings they'll be taking forward with them.

Research-Based Online Learning For Teachers

TLA, in partnership with EdSurge, conducted a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on adult learning and uncovered six key drivers that make for quality online learning for practitioners.

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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.

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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!
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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.
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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.
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