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Getting Started

To create the conditions for effective blended/personalized instructional practices in schools, explore these key resources below.

Conditions for Success and Scale

In order to realize the promise of innovative teaching models at the student level, school and district leaders must establish supportive conditions that allow educators to implement the design for students.
School Learning Models in Action

TLA worked alongside schools implementing blended and personalized learning to study innovative approaches. Find an overview of each school's model to understand how individual strategies work together.
Personalizing Professional Learning

Explore resources to identify teacher needs and strengths while allowing teachers to take ownership of their learning by choosing content, path, place, etc.

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Most Popular Resources for School & System Leaders

Advice: Considerations for Creating a Homegrown Residency Program

Concrete guide to ensuring true alignment with your residency partner

Vision 2031: Adoption of District-Wide, 10-Year Vision for Innovation

District vision of an innovative education and portrait of a graduate in 2031

Remote Learning: Planning for Improvement

Power Moves for Remote Learning

Hybrid Learning With a Focus on In-Person Time for Labs, Hands-On Activities, and Collaboration

Creating time for labs, hands-on activities, and collaboration

Setting Expectations Through Surveys

Enabling "recalibration of re-entry" as remote learners enter in-person learning in the fall

Deepening Arts Enrichment Through Three-Week Focus Scheduling

Modified schedules minimize health risks and deepen engagement

Access to Grade-Level Instruction Through TV

Leveraging local TV for remote lessons

Shifting Towards Assessment-Aligned Trimester Reporting

Adopt reporting that emphasizes power learning standards and reduces emphasis on attendance and participation

Creative Commons Basics

How Creative Commons licensing supports OER

Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart

Building in opportunities and connection

Separate School and Home Devices

Providing high quality devices for each student at school, as well as loaner devices they can take home

Districtwide Learning Framework To Create Coherence With Greater School Autonomy

Leveraging a learning framework to support school-based decision making

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School & System Leader Voices
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.
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