This research brief examines Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD)’s learning facilitators’ participation in two professional learning opportunities offered in partnership with external providers BetterLesson and PBLWorks in Grant Year 1 (2017-2018) and Grant Year 2 (2018-2019). View an accessible version of this report.
Informed by the expertise and wisdom of thousands in its community, the Aurora Institute’s 2022 federal policy priorities are a set of nine recommendations designed to ensure education systems move from the current state to future-focused systems capable of preparing all learners with building the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve lifelong success. The priorities include:
Download our 2022 federal policy recommendations for a full analysis of these issues. Policymakers at all levels are encouraged to contact the Aurora Institute Center for Policy for more information or assistance.
Administrators at Mountain Heights Academy developed a brief student profile for each learner to show different levels of engagement based on GPA, credit analysis, grade-level mastery, and social-emotional learning (SEL) needs. Students and parents have access to this profile in their Google Docs portfolio folder. Administrators use this data to design targeted interventions to further support the students, and the school utilizes a platform called Zappee to help pull this data.
All students at Taos Academy are required to join their weekly synchronous advisory meeting with their academic advisor and cohort. This synchronous meeting runs from 8:15 a.m. to 12 m. once per week, during which students and advisors engage in social-emotional learning (SEL) activities, goal-setting, small-group check-ins, and one-to-one support. This sets up students for independent success during the rest of their weekly asynchronous time.
This report urges leaders and policymakers to address five critical barriers to digital equity, moving beyond a sole focus on internet access and devices. These barriers include digital redlining, the digital use divide, privacy taxes, adult bias, and ethical concerns.
Using The Learning Accelerator‘s Key Factors that Help Drive Remote Learning Quality as a framework, this team assessment intends to surface and identify the prevalence of the drivers of quality virtual/hybrid learning in context. This tool uses the same survey items as from the self-assessment, but instead of asking individuals to rate their confidence in each item, it prompts teams to use a modified version of the Stoplight protocol from DataWise to indicate the degree to which each driver exists in context – consistently, in pockets, or not at all. This team assessment also prompts participants to add evidence to support their observations.
Using The Learning Accelerator’s Key Factors that Help Drive Remote Learning Quality as a framework, this individual self-assessment asks each participant to rate either their level of confidence or the likelihood that certain drivers exist in context.
Districts disseminate this survey using an online platform such as SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, or Google Forms and then come together to review a summary of the responses.
The LearnPlatform grading rubric is designed to be a grading protocol for educators to share valuable insights on the edtech tools they encounter on a daily basis. This rubric can be a way for educators to provide feedback in a useful and systematic way, so that educator insights can be easily interpreted and acted on.
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 stories and offering a look across systems and experts to share broader patterns in the new skills, capabilities, and mindsets which will help the K-12 sector make bigger leaps as communities move through recovery to advancement.
This survey is intended to help schools and districts to understand the state of adult wellbeing within their community.
