Continuous Improvement Archives

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

United Charter High School for the Humanities II AI Playbook for Teachers

This practical guide helps teachers integrate AI into instruction with specific strategies, prompt starters, and tool overviews organized by classroom challenges such as differentiation, engagement, and feedback. Designed for everyday use, the playbook emphasizes instructional alignment, ease of use, and teacher autonomy.

July 7, 2025

The Eliot Innovation School’s Writing Data Tracker Sheet

This schoolwide Google Sheet tracks student progress in writing across informational, argumentative, and narrative genres. By visualizing individual growth against personalized goals and color-coding progress, the tracker helps teachers pinpoint student needs, measure intervention impact, and recognize growth over time—including outcomes related to AI-supported instructional shifts.

June 23, 2025

The Eliot Innovation School’s SY24-25 Mid-Year Data Analysis Slide Deck

This internal slide deck outlines Eliot’s process for mid-year data analysis, from identifying schoolwide trends to targeting subgroup needs. It reflects how the school uses structured data reviews to inform instructional shifts—such as customizing small group lessons using AI tools—and maintain a strong continuous improvement cycle tied to real student outcomes.

June 23, 2025

Theory of Change Model

A tool to uncover the why behind learning outcomes.

June 13, 2025

ELI Convening Poster Presentations

Posters highlighting each ELI organization, including an organizational overview, description of their innovation, what they’ve learned so far, and questions they’re exploring.

June 3, 2025

Starting Smart with AI: A Quick Guide for School and System Leaders

This brief helps local education agency (LEA) leaders take their first steps toward thoughtful AI integration in K-12 education. Framed around foundational questions and actionable steps using the Hop, Skip, Leapfrog model, it supports systems in aligning AI use with core learning goals, equity, and student-centered instructional change.

May 27, 2025

Starting Smart with AI: A Quick Guide for State Education Agency Leaders

This brief highlights the critical role state education agencies can play in supporting foundational AI integration across districts. It provides specific questions and vetted tools to help SEAs assess local needs, identify gaps, and coordinate meaningful support.

May 27, 2025

Grappling with Feedback: Lessons in Trying, Failing, and Trying Again

This blog from CompassPoint dives into the rationale behind and ideas for sharing and receiving authentic feedback.

November 19, 2024

5 Tips for Providing Feedback to Remote Workers

This article from Remote.co explores effective practices in providing feedback to staff members in a virtual environment.

November 19, 2024

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