Sample Scope and Timeline: LPS & TLA Researcher-Practitioner Partnership
This sample scope and timeline for a research-practitioner partnership was co-developed by TLA and Leadership Public Schools.
February 21, 2019
Craft Category: Artifacts
Logic Model Building
This slide deck describes logic modeling, its purpose, how to build a logic model, and potential sources of data for a logic model.
February 21, 2019
TLA Measurement Model
This slide deck examines The Learning Accelerator’s measurement model through inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact.
February 21, 2019
Not All Feedback is Created Equal: IgnitED Research Video
It seems to be common (and accepted) knowledge that effective feedback is timely and relevant. In other words, receiving a simple grade on a test two weeks after it was given is unlikely to improve learning. But learning science has also shown that feedback, even when timely and relevant, can still be ineffective, or even harmful. In this installment of IgnitED Research, we take a closer look at feedback.
February 13, 2019
iNACOL 2019 State Policy Priorities
This brief provides analysis of state policy changes needed toward a long-range vision to transform education and ensure our nation’s education systems prepare all students with the skills necessary to achieve success, contribute to their communities and advance society.
Our policy priorities are intentionally constructed to support future-focused states and localities moving forward from their current state of education to future systems that are equity-driven and ensure that every student will experience a prosperous, just and successful future.
For states, the 2019 policy priorities are:
- Redefine student success to prepare all students for college, career and civic life;
- Create meaningful qualifications based on mastery;
- Redesign accountability systems for continuous improvement;
- Build aligned, balanced systems of assessments to certify knowledge and skills;
- Develop educator capacity for next-generation learning;
- Build system and school leadership capacity for change; and
- Establish enabling state policies to create and launch innovative learning models and multiple pathways.
January 30, 2019
iNACOL 2019 Federal Policy Priorities
This brief provides analysis of federal policy changes needed toward a long-range vision to transform education and ensure our nation’s education systems prepare all students with the skills necessary to achieve success, contribute to their communities and advance society.
Our policy priorities are intentionally constructed to support future-focused states and localities moving forward from their current state of education to future systems that are equity-driven and ensure that every student will experience a prosperous, just and successful future.
For federal leaders, the 2019 policy priorities are:
- Launch a pilot program in the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to support innovation;
- Remove barriers for states in ESSA Section 1204 (Innovative Assessment Pilot);
- Support continued expansion of Internet access, wifi and broadband infrastructure; and
- Target funding within the reauthorized Perkins Career and Technical Education Act to encourage alignment to postsecondary programs and pathways.
January 30, 2019
The Best of WHY
These slides provide options for how to engage participants in ‘the why’ of personalized learning, particularly during professional learning.
January 14, 2019
Integrating Educational Technology Into All Areas Of ESSA Title IV-A: Guide to Implementing the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grant
This guide draws evidence from research and exemplar cases across the country to demonstrate that technology can enrich and enhance all such uses of the SSAE grant.
January 3, 2019
The Myth of Learning Styles: IgnitED Research Video
Did you know that learning styles do not exist? Watch the inaugural video in The Learning Accelerator’s new series, IgnitED Research, to dive into the research and hear from a practitioner about the myth of learning styles.
December 20, 2018
Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education
This publication re-envisions professional practice, learning and development for educators in competency-based education.
As school districts transition to new, more powerful student-centered learning models, it’s critical that educators leading the transformative practice are equipped for their new roles. Moving Toward Mastery describes a teaching profession that is equity-oriented, learning-centered and lifelong; it recommends 15 strategies that can help school districts successfully make this paradigm shift.
Building off examples of effective teaching, professional development and practice across the nation, the new report explores how communities can work together to prompt and sustain complex systems change of moving both students and teachers from a one-size-fits-all approach to education to one in which all students and all teachers can succeed.
November 8, 2018