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Aligning on the “Why” through “The End of Average”
Aligning on the “why” of a model is crucial. Dallas ISD utilizes a book study of “The End of Average” to align on the rationale for a personalized model and apply its concepts to education and their instructional model.
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Investing in Infrastructure to Solve Complex Challenges
By implementing a strategic and holistic approach to infrastructure, education leaders can begin to address and find solutions to many of the challenges within education. Using the example of student nutrition, the following steps offer guidance on...
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The Art and Science of Designing Competencies
The Art and Sciences of Designing Competencies paper discusses how innovators in competency education develop competencies. Often this is referred to as a tuning process or reengineering process – mapping from what we want students to know and be...
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District Supports at Trailblazer
District staff support schools in utilizing resources, scaling best practices, and change management.
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Change Management Strategies
Education leaders should consider frameworks for addressing change management in their school systems to support their initiatives.
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Problem of Practice: "Fast and Furious" vs. "Slow and Steady"
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of change implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.
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Resource Reallocation Options
Explore how Liberty Public Schools reallocated resources after saving funds through OER to support professional development and curriculum creation.
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Empathy Interviews and Co-Design Sessions
Monterey Peninsula took a design-thinking approach to identify challenges, listen to students, and co-design solutions.
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Driving EdTech Systems: Uxbridge Public Schools
Uxbridge Public Schools is located in western Massachusetts and participated in the EdTech Peer Learning Cohort facilitated by The Learning Accelerator (TLA) in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s...
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Driving EdTech Systems: Racial Equity
This strategy supports users of the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation in reflecting on opportunities to promote racial equity within their edtech systems and practices.
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Starting Smart with Learning Acceleration: A Quick Guide for Local Education Agency (LEA) Leaders
This quick guide supports district and system leaders in embedding learning acceleration into the instructional core by aligning strategy, professional learning, and system conditions. Organized around five foundational questions, it offers Hop,...
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