Fenway Partnerships aims to provide students with well-rounded education that goes beyond textbooks. Their impressive network of nearly 40 partners strengthens student success from entry to graduation and beyond, with a focus on college and career pathways and enriching extracurricular activities.
This activity is based on The Learning Accelerator (TLA)’s Driving EdTech Systems: Engage Stakeholders work and supports school- and system-level edtech leaders in reflecting on and improving their stakeholder engagement practices to translate the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation into action.
This Google Forms-based survey adapts the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation and can be used to collect stakeholder input to inform your understanding of your school/systems edtech processes. The information collected using this survey will help leaders complete the aligned self-assessment to identify potential areas to target for systems-level process improvements.
This worksheet adapts the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation to collect stakeholder input to inform your understanding of your school/systems edtech processes. The information collected using this survey will help leaders complete the aligned self-assessment to identify potential areas to target for systems-level process improvements.
This survey template adapts the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation and can be built using users’ preferred survey software to collect stakeholder input. This will inform your understanding of your school/systems edtech processes. The information collected using this survey will help leaders complete the EdTech Systems Guide-aligned self-assessment to identify potential areas to target for systems-level process improvements.
Fully virtual and hybrid learning contexts present an incredible opportunity to rethink educator compensation as a tool for recruiting and retaining effective, high-quality teachers and responding to a call for greater professionalization in the field. This policy brief from The Learning Accelerator (TLA) explores three key components – salary and benefits, professional opportunities and growth, and working conditions – and how they factor into compensation that responds to the needs and expertise of educators.
We know the importance of learning experiences that happen beyond the confines of a traditional classroom. But how might federal policy support such experiences to prepare young people for life after high school? That’s where work-based learning comes in – a strategy designed to help students connect what they learn in the classroom with what is expected in the workplace by integrating learning with real-world applications in partnership with industry professionals.
While momentum is growing at the local and state levels to design and implement PK-12 through workforce pathways to support work-based learning, there is still much work to be done in creating truly supportive policy environments. This set of federal policy recommendations outlines how enabling policies could further incentivize and focus increased resources on pathways and work-based learning.
Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School created a survey using Google Forms to learn more about how families were receiving information about the school’s events, announcements, and opportunities to be involved. The survey included demographic information so the staff could disaggregate the data and determine whether any trends were apparent within specific subgroups of their school community.
In The Learning Accelerator’s new podcast series, Beyond Brick and Mortar, hear from leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. about what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn along the way. In this episode, we chat with Laurie Wolfe, Chief Academic Officer at Gem Prep Online, about their whole-community approach to preparing students for college, career, and beyond, emphasizing unique partnership opportunities, family engagement, flexibility, and supports to help students at every level of their learning journey.
In order to effectively and consistently capture notes from the focus groups, KIPP MA created a note-catcher document that contains an introductory script, the questions to be asked, and a notes section for each attendee.
