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Gathering Family Feedback on Edtech Usage
Edtech tools can serve as a channel to involve families in their students’ lives, strengthen the home-school connection, and provide access to teachers for better communication. School leaders should seek to gather family feedback to ensure all...
Spotlights & Case Studies
How Do Edtech Products “Stack” Up?: Improving Quality in Virtual and Hybrid Learning Through Technology
This resource distills learnings about what must be true for edtech to promote virtual and hybrid learning program quality and offers leaders a series of questions to ask themselves when considering their own edtech products’ ability to do so.
Artifacts
Tool: Data Advocacy Reflection and Planning Workbook
This tool has been created to support teams when using The Learning Accelerator (TLA)'s Data Advocacy Guide. This workbook intends to foster productive dialogue within stakeholder groups to guide the collection and analysis of data to better...
Strategies
Gulfport Virtual Academy's Approach to Teacher and Student Capacity
Through participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Gulfport Virtual Academy sought to support students who struggled with asynchronous courses and empower teachers to try new technologies and teaching practices to support...
Strategies
Novi Virtual's Approach to Teacher and Student Capacity with Technology
Through participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Novi Virtual sought to provide students with flexible and equitable access to instruction, as well as make teachers feel empowered to try new technologies and teaching practices...
Strategies
KJ Virtual Academy's Approach to Teacher & Student Capacity with Technology
Through participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, KJ Virtual Academy sought to provide an effective learning solution for disengaged students and offer a sustainable workload for teachers.
Strategies
Student Belonging Through Routine Connection-Building (FLEX Online)
Through participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, FLEX Online sought to determine how to use their existing systems and structures to build connectedness and engagement in a virtual environment.
Strategies
Building Teacher Capacity to Increase Student Belonging (KIPP DC)
Through their participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, KIPP DC sought to improve their students’ sense of belonging as well as their educators' capacity to mentor students.
Strategies
NYC School Without Walls' Approach to Student and Family Engagement
Through their participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, NYC School Without Walls sought to increase engagement with asynchronous learning and provide clarity for both students and families about expectations for virtual learning.
Strategies
Madison Promise Online Program's Approach to Communication
Through their participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Madison Promise Online Program sought to identify ways to better communicate with and engage families and set clear expectations for virtual/hybrid learning.
Strategies
PCCS' Approach to Setting Norms and Expectations
Through their participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools' Virtual Academy sought to articulate expectations to better support students with virtual learning and train teachers on best practices...
