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Access and Equity for All Learners in Blended and Online Education
Equity in education has been a basic tenet of public education in the United States, made explicit by civil rights legislation throughout the years. Unfortunately, legislation alone does not guarantee that all students will be provided with the...
Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed
This publication offers equity strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the equity principles within this report to develop an equity agenda within their...
In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
This paper seeks to unpack the concept of equity, review key equity strategies that have been developed to serve historically underserved students, and offer an initial framework to launch discussion at the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based...
Modernizing the Teaching Workforce for Learner-Centered, Competency-Based, Equity-Oriented Education: State Policy Recommendations
This issue brief highlights state policy opportunities to create a shared vision to modernize professional learning for educators in a K-12, competency-based education system. Educators will be prepared for a future-focused profession that better...
Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education
This publication seeks to advance K-12 competency education along four key issues: quality, equity, meeting students where they are, and policy. K-12 education in the United States and across the world is at a critical point in its evolution, and...
Learning Acceleration: From Intervention to Reimagination
This research brief synthesizes insights from state and district education leaders to understand how learning acceleration is currently defined and implemented across K–12 systems. It identifies five key areas of inquiry shaping the future of...
Blog: Leveraging technology to “do education differently”
This post on the TLA Blog, authored by Jilliam Joe, explores how technology can be used deliberately and thoughtfully to complement education innovation, with a particular focus on topics of equity and social-emotional learning.
From Urgent to Future: A Roadmap for Embedding Learning Acceleration within the Instructional Core
This white paper sets a vision for reimagining learning acceleration as a systemwide approach to teaching and learning—one that moves beyond short-term recovery or supplemental programs to become part of the instructional core. Grounded in field...
Starting Smart with Learning Acceleration: A Quick Guide for School Leaders
This guide equips principals and school-based leaders to make learning acceleration part of daily teaching and learning. Organized around five foundational questions, it provides Hop, Skip, and Leapfrog actions that help leaders align vision,...
What Is Competency-Based Education? An Updated Definition
This report updates the field's 2011 working definition of competency-based education, which helped to build the field and create common understandings of key elements in competency-based systems among stakeholders. Competency-based education is...
Tool: What is the financial impact of using OER?
By using OER, school districts can keep overall costs for instructional materials low.