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Effects of Professional Learning Opportunities on Learner Growth
This initial analysis of the impact of personalized professional learning on learner growth at LUSD addresses three primary research questions: (1) how did engaging in professional learning affect learner achievement?, (2) which combinations of...
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Report: A First Look at Instructional Look Fors at LUSD - Reliability and Validity of Instructional Look For Educator Actions
This interim research brief examines the keystone of LUSD’s Adult Learning Curriculum, known as Instructional Look Fors. The brief begins to explore if the Instructional Look Fors are a sound way of understanding the relationship between...
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Report: Guided Reading Professional Learning - Effect on Instructional Behaviors and Learner Achievement
This executive summary highlights key findings from research conducted by TLA to understand if learning facilitators’ participation in LUSD's Guided Reading Learning Academies and Micro-Credentials professional development helps ensure all learners...
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Report: Learning Found, Not Lost - Examining Learner Growth and Supports in LUSD During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis
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...
Teaching Practices
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...
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What classroom practices can be implemented to address unfinished learning?
At the classroom level, to address unfinished learning, educators need to implement strategies that accelerate individual learners’ growth and progress, adapt to their differences, and build on their academic, social, and physical strengths. This...
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What is the process for effectively organizing, analyzing, and making sense of data?
Analyzing and making sense of your data will allow you to find and interpret patterns, creating opportunities to develop meaningful and sustainable plans to address unfinished learning.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Report: BetterLesson and PBLWorks Professional Learning at LUSD – Effects on Instructional Behaviors and Learner Outcomes
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...
