The Forest School Online
The Forest School Online is a small, independent, tuition-based virtual school connected to The Forest School in Fayetteville, GA.
June 9, 2022
Archives: Craft Data
Quality Drivers of Virtual/Hybrid Learning: Team Assessment
Using The Learning Accelerator‘s Key Factors that Help Drive Remote Learning Quality as a framework, this team assessment intends to surface and identify the prevalence of the drivers of quality virtual/hybrid learning in context. This tool uses the same survey items as from the self-assessment, but instead of asking individuals to rate their confidence in each item, it prompts teams to use a modified version of the Stoplight protocol from DataWise to indicate the degree to which each driver exists in context – consistently, in pockets, or not at all. This team assessment also prompts participants to add evidence to support their observations.
June 6, 2022
Quality Drivers of Virtual/Hybrid Learning: Individual Self-Assessment
Using The Learning Accelerator’s Key Factors that Help Drive Remote Learning Quality as a framework, this individual self-assessment asks each participant to rate either their level of confidence or the likelihood that certain drivers exist in context.
Districts disseminate this survey using an online platform such as SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, or Google Forms and then come together to review a summary of the responses.
June 6, 2022
Get Educator Input with the LearnPlatform Edtech Grading Rubric
The LearnPlatform grading rubric is designed to be a grading protocol for educators to share valuable insights on the edtech tools they encounter on a daily basis. Use the rubric as a way for educators to provide feedback in a useful and systematic way, so that educator insights can be easily interpreted and acted on.
May 13, 2022
The LearnPlatform Edtech Grading Rubric
The LearnPlatform grading rubric is designed to be a grading protocol for educators to share valuable insights on the edtech tools they encounter on a daily basis. This rubric can be a way for educators to provide feedback in a useful and systematic way, so that educator insights can be easily interpreted and acted on.
May 13, 2022
White Paper: Launching Forward: Leveraging pandemic innovations to advance school systems
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.
April 22, 2022
Adult Wellbeing Pulse Survey
This survey is intended to help schools and districts to understand the state of adult wellbeing within their community.
April 20, 2022
Article: 9 Steps to Keep Student Data Safe
This article from The Edvocate outlines nine ways in which educators and leaders can take steps to understand the regulations regarding student data and to ensure they are putting in place the right data safeguards.
March 31, 2022
Blog: Leveraging technology to “do education differently”
This post on the TLA Blog, authored by Jilliam Joe, explores how technology can be used deliberately and thoughtfully to complement education innovation, with a particular focus on topics of equity and social-emotional learning.
March 30, 2022
Unfinished Learning: How do you begin to measure student progress during disruption?
Measuring unfinished learning requires a strategic measurement process that starts with reviewing data, creating strong research questions, and collecting data. This process will help make connections between learning mastery and enabling structures that support student growth.
March 30, 2022