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Virtual Learning: How can I engage families remotely to connect, collaborate, and support them as partners for students?
Strong relationships and communication with families (including parents, guardians, and other adults at home) is a vital and often under-utilized force for students' ongoing success, especially when learning occurs in a virtual setting. Explore this...
Measuring Unfinished Learning: A Guide for Schools and Systems to Understand and Measure Student Progress
This insight investigates how education leaders can take an asset-based approach to measuring student learning, offering concrete processes and methodology to examine learner growth during times of disruption to student learning.
Unfinished Learning: How do you begin to measure student progress during disruption?
Measuring unfinished learning requires a strategic measurement process that starts with reviewing data, creating strong research questions, and collecting data. This process will help make connections between learning mastery and enabling structures...
Unfinished Learning: What system conditions are needed to address unfinished learning?
Although long-term, systemic inequities ultimately need to be addressed, unfinished learning presents an immediate challenge. In the short term, schools and districts can organize their current systems around learner-centered principles and...
Crossroads FLEX High School
Crossroads FLEX High School serves students in grades 9-12 whose outside interests and activities require considerable time during typical school hours. The school has a flexible hybrid schedule that allows students to engage in their outside...
Report: Effects of Professional Learning Opportunities on Learner Growth - Initial Analysis
Beginning in the 2017-18 School Year, Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) launched a strategy to provide personalized professional learning opportunities to its learning facilitators (i.e., teachers) to support the development of the district’s...
Report: Effects of Professional Learning Opportunities on Learner Growth - Background Information Supporting the Three-Year TSL Grant
Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) has made a commitment to ensuring that all learners have the very best learning experiences every day. Through its Strategic Design, the district has articulated a clear vision for personalized,...
Report: Effects of Personalized Professional Learning Opportunities on TK-8 Learner Growth
Findings from previous examinations of the Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD)’s personalized professional learning program informed the design of our modular, in-depth analysis of the three-year Empower Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Grant....
Report: Effects of Personalized Professional Learning Opportunities on TK-8 Learner Growth - Analysis of the Cluster Characteristics
In taking a modular approach to our analysis of the three-year Empower Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Grant, TLA addressed specific research questions and built towards a broader examination of the personalized professional learning program as well...
Report: Effects of Personalized Professional Learning Opportunities on 9-12 Common Core Literacy
This fourth module concludes TLA's in-depth analysis of the three-year Empower Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Grant at Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD). Each module has aligned to specific research questions and contributed to a broader...
Research That Informs TLA's Work
Explore the research that goes into informing TLA's work.