In this webinar, presented by TLA team members Dr. Beth Holland and Dr. Jilliam Joe in partnership with NEISTE, explore the ways teachers and leaders can promote student creativity in their classrooms.
The Aurora Institute works to drive the transformation of education systems and accelerate the advancement of breakthrough policies and practices to ensure high-quality learning for all. In pursuing this mission, Aurora has built the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as anti-racism, into its strategic plan.
To support its DEI goals and provide structure around organizational learning, Aurora received a three-year grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The grant included an explicit focus on engaging the Aurora Board of Directors in DEI work to advance the organization. This case study describes Aurora’s Board of Directors’ evolution and growth with respect to DEI, from November 2020 through July 2023.
Here is the book you’ve been waiting for – “Agency by Design: An Educator’s Playbook!”
This book is a call to action, providing the tools, strategies and user friendly rubrics to guide you as you unlock the potential of your students, as they embrace their personal ownership of learning. This resource is a mix of the theoretical with the practical steps taken from lived experiences from educators, who, like you, desire more for their students in their learning experience.
Essential components found within the Playbook are explicitly defined support-systems in terms of the rationale (the why), a deeper look at what agentic behavior looks like when the teacher creates the conditions for agentic behaviors and the characteristics seen in students when they become more agentic in their behaviors. Importantly, opportunities are included for you to reflect on the text and access rubrics for benchmarking and planning.
As an added benefit, you can download each of the 14 chapters listed below separately by clicking on the linked headings!
Conditions Created by Teachers:
Characteristics Observed in Students
Explore strategies that educators can engage in to better organize, analyze, and understand qualitative data they have collected.
Using of a spreadsheet tool such as Microsoft Excel helps educators organize and analyze data.
This tool accompanies The Learning Accelerator (TLA)’s Virtual and Hybrid Learning Model Design Guide. As you navigate the guide, capture reflections, new concepts, and relevant resources about quality virtual and hybrid program design, as well as next steps to develop or strengthen your virtual and hybrid learning programs.
This list of research references accompanies The Learning Accelerator (TLA)’s Insight on Learner-Centered Design in Virtual Learning.
Through their participation in TLA’s Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Cabarrus Virtual Academy designed and piloted a program centered on actively engaging project-based learning for students.
Through their participation in TLA’s Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Gulfport Virtual Academy designed and piloted a program to help teachers design targeted and relevant instruction for their virtual students.
Through their participation in TLA’s Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Newport News’ Virtual Learning Academy Academy designed and piloted a program focused on building more meaningful social connections in virtual learning.
