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Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor Collegiate Academies consist of two public charter schools in Nashville, TN, serving students in grades 5-8. Their instructional model includes a blended and personalized math class, as well as a large emphasis on student social and emotional...
Implementing a Flex Time Period
Learn about different types of flexible learning times and how they are used.
Unlocking Time: School Time Assessment
Unlocking Time is a national project that empowers K12 school leaders to adopt new time strategies that fuel student-centered learning. The project will gain new insights on how U.S. schools structure their time, provide a rich set of resources to...
Knowing the Community: How do leaders ensure new teachers understand and engage with the communities they serve?
When designing onboarding for new teachers (new to the school or to teaching in that school), it’s important to ensure they not only understand the school from an instructional standpoint but also get to know and understand the community they will...
Leadership That Moves You Forward, Part II: Engagement, Collaboration, and Teambuilding
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the most impactful actions site-level leadership can use to effectively lead schools through engagement, collaboration, and teambuilding.
Today's One Thing for Teachers: Building Connections
Today's One Thing is TLA's new series aimed at sharing concrete resources, ideas, tools, and best practices around one specific topic targeted towards helping educators and leaders solve their challenges around the recent shift to remote and online...
Today's One Thing for Leaders: Connecting Remotely
In this first installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders, we discuss how to meet the social needs of school teams and students in a remote environment.
Monterey Peninsula: Getting Inspired by Relationships Between Students and Adults
Through their redesign work, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District has explored deepening personal relationships and students’ feelings of connection within the school community. The design team knew that such personal relationships and feeling...
Real-Time Redesign Case Study: Monterey Peninsula Unified School District
This case study provides an overview of Monterey Peninsula Unified School District's experience progressing through Real-Time Redesign.
Remote-Friendly Assessments: How can I build assessments that are accessible for students in remote and hybrid learning environments?
Looking for ways to assess a student’s mastery of new learning, no matter their physical location? This guide shares specific strategies to ensure students are engaging with and mastering content, whether they are working remotely or inside the...
Cohorting Students for In-Person Learning Toolkit
This toolkit from the Parabola Project helps school leaders make key decisions driven by the values and priorities of their school or district. Leaders need to determine the resources they have available (time, people, and space) and think...