TLA Research Reports Archives

Report: Deepening Our Understanding of High-Quality Virtual and Hybrid Learning: Initial Analysis of Six Diverse Models

This report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Deepening Our Understanding of High-Quality Virtual and Hybrid Learning: Initial Analysis of Six Diverse Models,” explores six promising virtual and hybrid learning models, highlighting their design, goals, and impact on student learning acceleration. Explore this report’s standalone executive summary.

November 26, 2024

Executive Summary: Deepening Our Understanding of High-Quality Virtual and Hybrid Learning: Initial Analysis of Six Diverse Models

This is the Executive summary for a report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Deepening Our Understanding of High-Quality Virtual and Hybrid Learning: Initial Analysis of Six Diverse Models,” which explores six promising virtual and hybrid learning models, highlighting their design, goals, and impact on student learning acceleration. Explore the full report.

November 26, 2024

Assessing Learning Anytime, Anywhere: Virtual Learning as a Launchpad Into the Future

This paper, created in collaboration between the Digital Learning Collaborative and The Learning Accelerator (TLA), outlines how we can reimagine assessment to gain meaningful, actionable insights regardless of where, when, or how students learn. In addressing some urgent challenges – illustrated by virtual schools’ existing issues with state assessments – there is a unique opportunity to build systems that better serve students, schools, and states to ensure every learner has a personalized pathway to success.

An accessible, Google Docs version of this paper is also available for viewing.

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November 15, 2024

Executive Summary: Where, Why, How – Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape

This is the Executive summary for a report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape,” which explores the current state of virtual and hybrid learning models across the United States and their viability as a tool to expand access to high-quality education for students across the country. Explore the full report.

September 9, 2024

Report: Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape

This report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape,” explores the current state of virtual and hybrid learning models across the United States and their viability as a tool to expand access to high-quality education for students across the country. Explore this report’s standalone executive summary.

September 9, 2024

Strategy Memo: System Conditions and Strategies to Support Accelerated Learning

This strategy memo, produced by TLA in partnership with Kent School District and the district’s DARTS (Data, Assessment, Research, Technology and Strategy) team, explores how the district can address K-8 literacy in the face of COVID-19 pandemic-related school closures, as well as the academic and whole-child supports that could accelerate learning.

April 13, 2023

Executive Summary: Learning Found, Not Lost – Examining Learner Growth and Supports in LUSD During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis

This executive summary synthesizes the major findings from research done alongside Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) to examine the context around COVID-19 closures and unfinished learning – and to analyze the progress LUSD learners were able to make in the face of the challenges posed by the pandemic. For additional information on this study, access the full report.

April 13, 2023

Data Sheets: Student Creativity Survey Pilot Observations

These data sheets illustrate the findings from the pilot study of the Student Creativity Survey.

April 1, 2023

Executive Summary: Building Community and Capacity – The Effects of the First Year of LUSD’s Teacher Residency Program

This executive summary presents the key findings of a mixed-methods study conducted to understand the effects of the first year of Lindsay Unified School District’s “grow-your-own” residency program. Lessons learned from this study can serve as a resource for districts seeking to implement their own residency program in the future.

November 16, 2022

Data Sheets: Teacher Creativity Survey Pilot Observations

These data sheets illustrate the findings from the pilot study of the Teacher Creativity Survey.

October 12, 2022

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