This online toolkit is one element of the broader Hop, Skip, Leapfrog project. Explore our current resources below. This list will be updated over time with links to a growing body of additional information, stories, and resources.
- Introduction
- Hops, Skips, and Leaps in Practice
- Shifting Conditions
- Take It Forward in Your Context
- Research & Resources
Research Insights & Additional Resources
This section provides a summary of additional resources associated with the Hop, Skip, Leapfrog project, as well as additional information on the partners and supporters who helped make this work happen.
The Learning Accelerator is grateful for the many organizations and individuals whose contributions made this guide and project possible.
School System Leaders
We owe immense gratitude to the leaders of school systems who worked with us to share what they’ve learned through a most extraordinary school year:
Suzanne Newell, Austin Independent School District;
Bb Ntsakey and Eric Tucker, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
John Rice, Noreen Bush, and Nicole Kooiker, Cedar Rapids Community School District;
Savannah Bell, Chicago Public Schools
Nicole Ottmer and Natasha North, Colorado Springs School District 11
Kristen Watkins, Dallas Independent School District
Stephanie Cardella and Katie O’Connor, Distinctive Schools
Scott Muri, Ector County Independent School District
Ann Ertl, Hopkins Public Schools
Jeanette Westfall, Scott Heeke, Ashley Duvall, Carrie Gabriel, Amanda Primm, Tara Harvey, Tracey Kracht, Lisa Gray, Brandon Lewis, Leslie Freeman, Dawn Shannon, and Molly Henley, Liberty Public Schools
David Quinn, Mendon-Upton Regional School District
Mark Benigni, Barbara Haeffner, and Susan Moore, Meriden Public Schools
Keri Randolph, Metro Nashville Public Schools
PK Diffenbaugh, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District
Kia McDaniel, Prince George’s County Public Schools
Bob Ettinger, Renton School District
Tina Owen-Moore, School District of Cudahy
Cheryl Camacho, South Bend Empowerment Zone
In addition, we are thankful to educators at Design39, Highline Schools, Intrinsic Schools, Norwood Public Schools, and Uxbridge Public Schools for sharing remote and hybrid learning strategies featured in this Guide.
Subject Matter Experts
Additional leaders and experts who agreed to offer their perspectives, helping us enrich our understanding of opportunities and challenges our sector faces as well as shape project outputs:
Scott Milam, Afton Partners
John Garcia and Kristina Romero, Greater LA Education Foundation
Malika Ali, Highlander Institute
Kristi Ransick, Independent Consultant
Diana Laufenberg, Inquiry Schools
Karla Phillips-Krivickas, KnowledgeWorks
Chong-Hao Fu, Leading Educators
Jilliam Joe, LEAP Innovations
Anpao Duta Flying Earth, NACA Inspired Schools Network
Sarah Johnson, Teaching Lab
Philanthropic Support
The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation helped make this research possible.
Inspiration for how to think about system progress towards "leapfrogging" was inspired by Rebecca Winthrop, Adam Barton, and Eileen McGivney's work, Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive. You can read the blog post that provoked our team's analysis here.
This resource is offered to the field through a CC BY Creative Commons License. Suggested citation is as follows: Rabbitt, B. and Dávila, B. (2021). Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Exploring the concrete ways schools and systems pursued student-centered innovation during COVID-19. The Learning Accelerator. Portland, ME.
Do you have your own stories and resources to share? Have questions? Contact the team at info@learningaccelerator.org.