Seven Ways to Check-In With Students
This Grading for Growth post shares seven ways instructors can gather mid-semester feedback to clarify confusion and improve learning.
November 4, 2025
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Six Check-in Ideas to Build Community in College Classrooms
This Faculty Focus article shares six research-based check-in strategies instructors can use to build community, reduce stress, and strengthen students’ sense of belonging in college classrooms.
November 4, 2025
Opening New Pathways: Evidence of Learning Acceleration in Public Virtual and Hybrid Models
“Opening New Pathways: Evidence of Learning Acceleration in Public Virtual and Hybrid Models” explores how public schools, when given the space to innovate, align with community needs, and measure what matters, can design high-quality virtual and hybrid models that accelerate student learning.
October 22, 2025
Starting Smart with Learning Acceleration: A Quick Guide for Local Education Agency (LEA) Leaders
This quick guide supports district and system leaders in embedding learning acceleration into the instructional core by aligning strategy, professional learning, and system conditions. Organized around five foundational questions, it offers Hop, Skip, and Leapfrog actions to help LEA leaders strengthen instructional coherence, support schools, and sustain acceleration efforts over time. The guide includes curated resources and district examples to translate vision into actionable, context-specific steps.
October 21, 2025
Starting Smart with Learning Acceleration: A Quick Guide for School Leaders
This guide equips principals and school-based leaders to make learning acceleration part of daily teaching and learning. Organized around five foundational questions, it provides Hop, Skip, and Leapfrog actions that help leaders align vision, structures, and instructional practices. With concrete examples and curated resources, the guide supports school teams in integrating learning acceleration strategies into lesson design, professional collaboration, and observation cycles.
October 21, 2025
Shifting the Model of Learning Acceleration: Recommendations for Coordinated Action
This recommendations document outlines coordinated actions for state education agencies, local education agencies, funders, and researchers to align their efforts in support of systemwide learning acceleration. Building on the From Urgent to Future white paper, it offers role-specific Hop, Skip, and Leapfrog actions designed to bridge policy, practice, and evidence. Together, these recommendations create a roadmap for lasting, equitable instructional transformation across the K–12 sector.
October 21, 2025
Learning Acceleration: From Intervention to Reimagination
This research brief synthesizes insights from state and district education leaders to understand how learning acceleration is currently defined and implemented across K–12 systems. It identifies five key areas of inquiry shaping the future of learning acceleration and offers a framework for shifting from isolated interventions toward systemic, equitable instructional improvement.
October 21, 2025
Starting Smart with Learning Acceleration: A Quick Guide for State Education Agency (SEA) Leaders
This guide helps state education agency leaders take practical, early steps to embed learning acceleration within daily instruction across their state. Organized around five foundational questions, it provides Hop, Skip, and Leapfrog actions that align vision, policy, and system supports to sustain learning acceleration as a core principle of teaching and learning. The guide includes curated resources, case studies, and tools to help SEAs move from fragmented initiatives to coherent, statewide progress.
October 21, 2025
From Urgent to Future: A Roadmap for Embedding Learning Acceleration within the Instructional Core
This white paper sets a vision for reimagining learning acceleration as a systemwide approach to teaching and learning—one that moves beyond short-term recovery or supplemental programs to become part of the instructional core. Grounded in field research and practitioner insights, the paper offers a roadmap for aligning instructional practices, system structures, and policy conditions to enable durable, equitable progress for all students.
October 20, 2025
Agency-Driven Leadership Self-Reflection Tool
The Agency-Driven Leadership Self-Reflection Tool enables leaders to examine their own beliefs, skills, and capacity for change in service of identifying next steps in their development as a catalyst for agency.
October 17, 2025