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Digital Equity Audit: Companion Workbook

The digital equity audit process and tools are intended to foster productive dialogue within leadership teams in an iterative manner. Whether you are just beginning to think about digital equity or have been working on it for years, cycling through this workbook and the accompanying Self-Assessment Tool will help to clarify your vision and strategy, articulate needs, and identify areas for improvement. Each section includes questions to support team reflection as well as a template for exploring how you might make change(s) to improve. This tool has been created to support teams when using The Learning Accelerator’s Digital Equity Guide.

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October 22, 2021

Adult Wellbeing in Schools

The same pandemic, economic, social, and political forces that have impacted students have also adversely affected many educators across roles and contexts.

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October 19, 2021

Measuring Adult Wellbeing in Schools – Survey Instrument

In collaboration with Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD), The Learning Accelerator (TLA) developed this 20-item survey based on an initial review of the literature related to adult wellbeing. Its purpose is to help district and system leaders to better understand wellbeing in their community so that they can implement short- and long-term strategies to help their leaders, educators, and staff.

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October 19, 2021

Report: Creating a Culture of Adult Wellbeing at School – Investing in Adults to Support Students

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.

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October 19, 2021

Agency by Design: Making Learning Engaging

“Learner agency is about having the power, combined with choices, to take meaningful action and see the result of those decisions. It can be thought of as a catalyst for change or transformation. Learner agency is about students having the understanding, ability and opportunity to be part of the learning design and taking action to intervene in the learning process to become effective lifelong learners.”

–Derek Wenmoth

The global COVID-19 pandemic pulled back the curtain on the growing need for greater student agency and student engagement. As we rethink the future of education in a post-pandemic world, learner agency must be at the center of learning designs and learning models so that we can support students anytime, anyplace, and at any pace. We must re-imagine what agency and engagement can look like in contemporary practices.

This report offers guidance – including practical advice – to education leaders and teachers in redesigning schools and classrooms by centering on learner agency, through a shift in the ownership of learning. It also provides clarity around the definition and meaning of learner agency and addresses the implications for high-quality practices in new learning models.

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October 19, 2021

Quick Hands

To ensure students are not only able to engage in a remote setting – but are able to engage comfortably – it is important to give all students the chance to share, participate, and answer questions in fun ways.

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October 18, 2021

Remote Pathways

Just like in an in-person environment, students in remote and hybrid environments can benefit from working in small groups for a variety of reasons including content support and enhanced, personalized working environments.

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October 18, 2021
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