This research brief examines Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD)’s learning facilitators’ participation in two professional learning opportunities offered in partnership with external providers BetterLesson and PBLWorks in Grant Year 1 (2017-2018) and Grant Year 2 (2018-2019). View an accessible version of this report.
This white paper release from The Learning Accelerator is a companion piece to our Hop, Skip, Leapfrog work to identify pandemic innovations advancing school systems. This paper zooms out from discrete innovation points, highlighting thematic stories and offering a look across systems and experts to share broader patterns in the new skills, capabilities, and mindsets which will help the K-12 sector make bigger leaps as communities move through recovery to advancement.
To examine the impact of COVID-19 school closures on their own learners, Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) partnered with The Learning Accelerator (TLA) to design a mixed-methods study using quantitative data captured from benchmark assessments in reading and math as well as qualitative information from a focus group with school counselors. This report presents the findings from that analysis. View the executive summary of this report.
This literature review serves as the contextual foundation for a broader examination of learner progress during COVID-19 closures. First, it paints a picture of the COVID-19 research landscape and describes the three major analytical “camps” or research viewpoints. Then, it summarizes key findings across studies before finally describing recommendations for addressing unfinished learning. This document ultimately serves two purposes: to provide an analysis of national data and to inform a study of unfinished learning in Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD).
This report presents findings from an extensive literature review and focus group of diverse district leaders to understand the state of adult wellbeing in schools and districts. It provides leaders and educators in the field with concrete language to talk about adult wellbeing in order to identify meaningful solutions that meet the specific needs of each school or district community.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted the landscape of American K-12 learning. This document summarizes key findings from The Learning Accelerator’s review of academic and professional research around effective virtual and remote learning and instruction design, and lays out a research-informed framework for implementing and improving remote learning for K-12 students.
This downloadable white paper provides a framework to help education leaders navigate through competing approaches to system-wide change.
