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Monterey Peninsula: Elevating Student, Parent, and Teacher Voice Through Empathy Interviews
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District’s redesign focused on deepening personal relationships and students’ feelings of connection within the school community. To figure out how to realize this vision, the design team planned group empathy...
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Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders
When designing change, teams ensure that stakeholders – students, families, teachers, and classified staff – are the primary sources of input for what change is necessary and what change might look like through direct interviewing.
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Activity: Reflect on the Pilot
When designing change, teams use data from a pilot in order to determine whether the planned change should be scaled.
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Austin ISD Standards-Based Grading Pilot Notetaking
As part of their pilot of grade interviews with students, Austin ISD teachers utilized a centralized notetaking space to support their collaboration on the pilot. Their team followed the Real-Time Redesign process as part of TLA's Strategy Lab.
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Edtech Stack Reflection Checklist
Leaders of virtual and hybrid programs can use this checklist to audit their program’s edtech stacks. This tool is designed to produce actionable insights about where edtech products support overall virtual and hybrid program quality. Additional...
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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.
Strategies
Driving EdTech Systems: Audit Your EdTech Systems
This strategy provides school- and system-level edtech leaders with a three-step process to understand how their edtech systems align with those outlined in the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation. This...
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Driving EdTech Systems: Build Research and Measurement Capacity
Beginning with developing research questions and then describing methodologies to capture data and share findings, this strategy supports the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation users in reflecting on...
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Driving EdTech Systems: Chicopee Public Schools
Chicopee Public Schools is a public school district in western Massachusetts that participated in the EdTech Peer Learning Cohort facilitated by The Learning Accelerator (TLA) in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and...
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Five Whys for EdTech Systems Challenge Root Cause Analysis
Use this activity to uncover root causes for edtech systems challenges.
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Designing a Multi-Level Theory of Change
A theory of change is a visual representation of a defined set of activities, outputs, and outcomes based on an evidence-based framework or theory. This collaborative tool helps state, system, and school communities identify not just actions and...
