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Activity: Reflect on Stakeholder Engagement Within Your Edtech Systems
This activity is based on The Learning Accelerator (TLA)’s Driving EdTech Systems: Engage Stakeholders work and supports school- and system-level edtech leaders in reflecting on and improving their stakeholder engagement practices to translate the...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Step One: Craft a compelling why
Successful blended and personalized implementations have clear statements for why they are pursuing change through blended and personalized learning. They ground all of their work in this “why,” referring back to it again and again.
Examples From The Field
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
Examples From The Field
Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor Collegiate Academies consist of two public charter schools in Nashville, TN, serving students in grades 5-8. Their instructional model includes a blended and personalized math class, as well as a large emphasis on student social and emotional...
Strategies
Engaging the Community to Build Future Momentum
How to build momentum for change by opening dialogue and participation across the entire system.
Teaching Practices
What are critical decision points when measuring to inform and improve teaching and learning practices?
Teachers and education leaders must make a series of critical decisions when beginning measurement to inform and improve teaching and learning practices. This guide provides an overview of three of these decisions and offers guidance on how to make...
Teaching Practices
What are key considerations when launching a researcher-practitioner partnership?
External partners can add critical capacity and expertise to help schools tackle measurement goals. However, successful research-practitioner relationships require intentional approaches. We offer three key considerations for launching a successful...
Teaching Practices
Knowing the Community: How do leaders ensure new teachers understand and engage with the communities they serve?
When designing onboarding for new teachers (new to the school or to teaching in that school), it’s important to ensure they not only understand the school from an instructional standpoint but also get to know and understand the community they will...
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
Today’s One Thing for Leaders: Engaging and Supporting Families and Teachers Over the Summer
This installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders explores how leaders can support and engage families and teachers over the summer.
