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White Paper: Look Both Ways
The Learning Accelerator has developed a new framework to help leaders understand and navigate through competing approaches about how to lead system change in a way that maximizes benefits to teachers and students.
White Paper: Technology-Empowered Learning: Six Spatial Insights
This design research study was conducted to evaluate the spatial implications of technology on learning spaces. The authors report six major findings: Person-to-person connections remain essential for successful learningTechnology is supporting...
White Paper: Look Both Ways
This downloadable white paper provides a framework to help education leaders navigate through competing approaches to system-wide change.
Meraki White Paper: Deploying Apple iOS in Education
This document provides deployment best practices for iOS devices using Meraki’s mobile device management solution, Systems Manager, and Apple Configurator.
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...
COSN: Rethinking Acceptable Use Policies to Enable Digital Learning: A Guide for School Districts
This whitepaper came out of a COSN Leadership Initiative.
CRPE's Blueprint for Effective and Adaptable School District Procurement
This 2015 whitepaper outlines why school district procurement needs reform, promising approaches to procurement reform, and implications for school systems.
Guide: Blended Learning Implementation Guide 3.0
The Learning Accelerator and Getting Smart joined with DLN to update this popular guide. Version 3.0 reflects feedback from schools and districts, developments in the field, and new educational technology trends.
Understanding By Design (UbD) Framework
The Understanding By Design (UbD) framework is a planning resource that supports the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. UbD leads teachers through three stages when designing learning experiences: Identify desired results...
Guide: Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum
This guide provides advice on how districts can move from selecting print content to identifying and obtaining high-quality digital content appropriately aligned with state-adopted standards.
What are key considerations when launching a researcher-practitioner partnership?
External partners can add critical capacity and expertise to help schools tackle measurement goals. However, successful research-practitioner relationships require intentional approaches. We offer three key considerations for launching a successful...