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Chicago Public Schools’ Sullivan School Blueprint
As schools make the shift to personalized learning, Chicago Public Schools works with school leaders to design a school blueprint – a comprehensive document laying out the vision, mission, background, strategy, and implementation plan for achieving...
Teaching Practices
Knowing the “Why": How do leaders communicate with new teachers around the purpose and vision of their innovative models?
Clearly communicating the “why” behind a school’s innovative model – not just the model itself – is an essential strategy for building new teachers’ abilities to understand and implement. This guide will explore various ways schools and districts...
Teaching Practices
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leadership That Moves You Forward: Innovation, Vision, and Planning
To help understand how district and building-level administrators can successfully manage the change process when leading personalized learning initiatives, the Institute for Teaching and Leading (i4tl) conducted research looking at which actions by...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leadership That Moves You Forward, Part II: Engagement, Collaboration, and Teambuilding
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the most impactful actions site-level leadership can use to effectively lead schools through engagement, collaboration, and teambuilding.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leadership that Moves You Forward, Part III: Diving Deeper on Creating Culture for Change
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the actions of school and district leadership in terms of their impact on empowerment, self-efficacy, mindset, and motivation of the learning...
Teaching Practices
Leveraging Language: How can students who are learning English use their home language in a personalized classroom?
Are you interested in learning how to better support your students who are learning English (“ELs”) by offering opportunities to use their home language in your general education classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific ways to engage your...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today's One Thing for Teachers: Building Connections
Today's One Thing is TLA's new series aimed at sharing concrete resources, ideas, tools, and best practices around one specific topic targeted towards helping educators and leaders solve their challenges around the recent shift to remote and online...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today's One Thing for Leaders: Connecting Remotely
In this first installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders, we discuss how to meet the social needs of school teams and students in a remote environment.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today’s One Thing for Leaders: Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week from a Distance
This installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders explores ways to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week in a remote learning environment.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today’s One Thing for Leaders: Hiring Teachers in a Remote Setting, Part 1 – Active Recruitment and Selection
This installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders explores the process of hiring teachers in a remote setting through active recruitment.
