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System-Level Driving Questions: Setting an Innovation Focal Point
Inspired by the book The Power of Moments, Dallas ISD identified one driving question that served as the focal point for piloting new and innovative teaching and learning practices across their cohort of personalized learning schools.
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Podcasts: TLA's "What Will We Take With Us?"
Explore various podcasts in our leadership series, "What Will We Take With Us?" to hear how education leaders rose to tackle the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they're working to take what they've learned into a future that supports...
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Episode 5: Monterey Peninsula Unified School District on Communication, Collaboration, and Transparency
On this episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, PK Diffenbaugh of Monterey Peninsula Unified...
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Empowering Teachers to Pilot Edtech Tools
A district technology team in MA created a process for teachers to propose pilots of new edtech tools in their classrooms
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Surveying Teachers to Identify Edtech Professional Learning Needs
Professional development can be a powerful driver for edtech integration. Collecting and analyzing data around teachers’ technology needs can help ensure that learning opportunities are relevant and targeted.
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Auditing an Edtech Stack
Edtech plays a critical role in promoting the quality of virtual and hybrid learning. Leaders must capture and reflect on their edtech tools' ability to drive quality learning.
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Highline Virtual Academy's Approach to Student Expectations and Engagement in Virtual Learning
Through their participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Highline Virtual Academy sought to establish common expectations for synchronous class participation and provide scaffolds to encourage student discourse.
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Gulfport Virtual Academy's Approach to Targeted, Relevant Virtual Learning
Through their participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Gulfport Virtual Academy designed and piloted a program to help teachers design targeted and relevant instruction for their virtual students.
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Virtual & Hybrid Learning Model Design Guide Workbook
This tool accompanies The Learning Accelerator (TLA)'s Virtual and Hybrid Learning Model Design Guide. As you navigate the guide, capture reflections, new concepts, and relevant resources about quality virtual and hybrid program design, as well as...
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Using AI to Create Resources and Strengthen the Implementation of Open Educational Resources
Generative AI can enhance Open Educational Resources (OER) by creating tailored instructional tools and supports. DSST Public Schools used AI-powered chatbots with Illustrative Mathematics to develop teacher engagement strategies and end-of-unit...
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Equipping Students to Drive Community Change with AI
To develop true AI literacy, students must actively create alongside AI, rather than passively consume its outputs. DSST Public Schools civics teachers Zach Kennelly and Gianna Geraffo designed a project where students built AI-powered chatbots to...
