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Schools and systems across the country are pursuing innovative approaches to make learning more personalized, mastery-based, and supportive of whole child development. Doing this work is complex, and given the variety of contexts, goals, and assets...
TLA is looking for its next Chief of Staff
At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we’re looking for our next terrific Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer. Our small but mighty and mission-driven team envisions a future in which each student receives an effective, equitable, and...
Digital Citizenship: Focusing on the what, why, and how
The call to teach digital citizenship has been heard by schools around the world, yet there are a few schools who question the value, purpose, and position of teaching digital citizenship within the classroom. Many of those questions stem from a...
Planting Trees Under Which You May Never Sit: The long-term work of school transformation
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson Transforming schools and districts from industrial models to student-centered ones is bold, noble, worthy work that requires a sustained...
Stuck in the Cycle: What teachers really face when we ask them to use data in their classrooms
Educators are masters of working with scarce resources, including something most limited and valuable – time. Time is always in high demand but short supply, and teachers are constantly forced to make critical, and often tough, choices about where...
Making good on our data resolutions: Introducing a new series on lessons from TLA’s 6-month study on the current state of classroom data use
At TLA, we believe that the use of data is one of the most powerful strategies for realizing an effective, engaging, and equitable outcome for every child in classrooms across America. As our friends at the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) say, when used...
Blended Learning Data: Moving beyond binary results
“For every 20 minutes a student spent [on our software], their MAP score increased by 2.5 points.” “Ensure that students see two years of reading growth [if they use our program].” “Our study has found that use of this math program with fidelity...
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...
TLA's New Tools Enabled Team Success in a Remote Setting
As we described in the first post in our work culture series, The Learning Accelerator is a small, remote-first organization with a team of 12 people stretched over four time zones and eight states. Much of the work of our internal Operations team...
Look Both Ways: New Framework and Research on Leader Decision-Making Challenges
Dear TLA Friends, All education leaders interested in scaling innovation face choices about how to lead system change in a way that maximizes benefits to teachers and students. How do we decide whether implementation should be centralized or...
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