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White Paper: Launching Forward: Leveraging pandemic innovations to advance school systems
This white paper release from The Learning Accelerator is a companion piece to our Hop, Skip, Leapfrog work to identify pandemic innovations advancing school systems. This paper zooms out from discrete innovation points, highlighting thematic...
Virtual & Hybrid Learning Model Design Guide Workbook
This tool accompanies The Learning Accelerator (TLA)'s Virtual and Hybrid Learning Model Design Guide. As you navigate the guide, capture reflections, new concepts, and relevant resources about quality virtual and hybrid program design, as well as...
Beyond the Pilot: How to Scale Up Innovation in Schools
This Insight explores the importance of a deliberate, phased approach to implementing educational initiatives, emphasizing that intentionality, rather than speed, is crucial for long-term success. By piloting new practices, building teacher...
Trailblazer Next Generation Learning Coordinator
The Next Generation Learning Coordinator is a district employee who supports innovation in schools across the district through professional development, coaching, communication support, and change management.
What’s Possible with Personalized Learning? An Overview of Personalized Learning for Schools, Families & Communities
iNACOL's 2017 paper is designed to inform schools, families and communities about the potential of personalized learning. This report describes why personalized learning matters and shows what personalized learning looks like in schools for teachers...
Blended Learning Messaging
A collection of sample messages about blended learning, targeted to key audiences including parents, teachers and the community.
Advice: Community Collaboration for School Innovation
Developed by the Colorado Department of Education, The Colorado Education Initiative, and The Learning Accelerator, the guide includes real-world case studies from Colorado school districts, video trainings, and templates.
Christensen Institute's Roadmap for Blended Learning
Blended learning researchers and consultants, Michael Horn and Heather Staker, have developed a design process to help schools and districts build effective blended learning programs. This nine-step framework offers a roadmap for users seeking to...
Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined?
States and districts have traditionally controlled the resources that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to make the decisions they think will most benefit students are...
North Carolina Digital Learning Plan
Developed by The Friday Institute, the goal of the Digital Learning Plan is to build upon the existing foundation to develop a coherent long-term strategy that sets directions and priorities, supports innovation, and provides resources to enable the...
Designing Henry County’s Five Pillars for Personalized Learning
Henry County Schools created five core tenets of personalized learning to help schools identify primary areas of change in their instructional practices.