Vote for TLA in SXSWedu's PanelPicker

It’s that time of the year again! The public voting period for SXSWedu’s PanelPicker has arrived, and we would love your help in bringing The Learning Accelerator (TLA) back to Austin! Please take a few minutes to look into the sessions below and...

TLA Is Looking for a Data Analyst to Join Our Small but Mighty Team

The Learning Accelerator (TLA) is launching an 18-month partnership with a leading performance-based school system to support the district’s use of evidence across its adult-facing initiatives to inform continuous improvement and the scaling of...

Behind the Curtain of Flex Time

This blog first appeared on EdWeek’s Next Gen Learning in Action column. With all the interest in innovative school models, many schools are creating “flex time” periods during the day for students to increase student agency. We at Silicon Schools...

Getting Farther, Faster with Personalized Professional Learning

Photo courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action (CC BY-NC 4.0). “I am a returning teacher after leaving my own classroom in 2003. So much has changed since I earned my teaching...

Lounge Lessons: Clearing up persistent teacher misconceptions on blended learning

Having taught high school and middle school for almost ten years, I still have many friends who are educators and administrators throughout the country. Recently I visited a school and was able to reconnect with some of them, talk about life, and...

Personalized Learning: Trendy and True

Personalized learning practices are increasingly being used in a variety of K-12 settings. These include public, private, and charter schools; at elementary, middle, and high school levels; in many content areas—including core subjects like reading,...

States Must Change, Too For Blended Learning

Schools around the country are taking steps to organize around students and engage in more personalized and blended learning strategies and approaches to learning. The creation of these new models is endowed with a spirit of discovery,...

Leading Blended Learning, and Getting Support While Doing It

As we began developing our human capital strategy in the summer of 2013, we heard two things about leadership in blended and personalized schools: • principals are absolutely critical to successful design and implementation, and;• there is a dearth...

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