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To Help Teachers Survive the Next Few Weeks, Focus on Creativity
The holiday season brings both happiness and hardship. The three-week period between Thanksgiving and the winter break is marked by celebrations as well as disrupted schedules. While some students become exuberant in their anticipation of vacations,...
Helping Educators and Leaders Surface What Works, For Whom, and Under What Conditions
Over the past few years, the context of education has dramatically changed as schools and systems grapple with the ongoing ramifications of emergency remote learning, lost instruction time, a growing student well-being crisis, and educator...
Without Ethics, Digital Equity is Impossible: Three Questions Leaders Must Answer
Since the start of the pandemic, educators, leaders, and policymakers have undertaken substantial efforts to increase student access to devices and high-speed internet in an attempt to close the digital divide. However, improved digital access...
Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: How to Navigate a Once-in-a-Generation Equity Moment
Chong-Hao Fu is the Chief Executive Officer of Leading Educators, which “partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.”...
Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Effectively Shifting Professional Development (PD) During a Pandemic
Dr. Sarah Johnson is the CEO of Teaching Lab. She is passionate about strengthening outcomes for students by improving professional development for teachers. Teaching Lab strives to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning...
The pandemic forced many to change how they teach the arts. What can we learn from them?
Few of us would argue that engaging students in the arts — visual, music, dance — is an important part of school. It’s well documented that arts engagement supports academic and social development, but with competing demands on time and budgets,...
Key Terms & Definitions for Redesign
The following terms are used in the Real-Time Redesign toolkit developed through the Strategy Lab. Educational Equity“Creating opportunities and removing barriers in educational experience so each student can reach his or her full potential - in...
Focusing on Academic Rigor in the Face of Disruption
One school’s experience using instructional materials to advance personalized, mastery-based learning By: Kristi Ransick In the midst of the uncertainty and change that has unfolded in school systems in 2020, one topic that isn’t getting...
Curiosity Connected the Cat: Honoring Cultural Differences in the Classroom
Confronting a sea of stares, my hands were sweaty. Every thought ran through my mind while I slowly opened my tri-fold poster board entitled, “The Beauty of India.” Why am I presenting this? Do people want to hear what I have to say? Will I fit in?...
Are GIFs the Secret Sauce to Working and Learning Remotely?
This blog was originally published on EdSurge.When new colleagues start work at The Learning Accelerator (TLA), they’re often surprised that one of the first “required” organizational readings is actually a 2014 video called “Conference Call in Real...
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