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Mix It Up! The Benefits of Mixed-Ability Groups: IgnitED Research Insight
This installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on the benefits of mixed-ability student groups.
Strategies
Guide: OER Selection
Discover where to find and how to select high-quality OER to enhance or build your own curriculum.
Artifacts
Learning Design at Washington Leadership Academy
Washington Leadership Academy’s learning design process for student learning (think: the real reason people “lesson plan”) is a key operation in the organization. The school currently leverages a design thinking process in how it plans for, designs,...
Artifacts
Open School Development and Operations Resources
Washington Leadership Academy focuses on the importance of always growing, staying open to feedback, and trying to improve the world. It has committed to sharing its operation resources openly. In this guide, you will find resources around: School...
Strategies
Grade-Level and Personalized Supports with OER
Learn about WLA’s innovative OER model, where students take two math and ELA courses, alternating daily, to better support all students' needs.
Strategies
Teacher Team Structures
Learn about Liberty Public Schools' three-tiered teacher team structure designed to support curriculum development across content areas and grades.
Teaching Practices
How can professional development support creating and implementing Open Educational Resources?
This guide provides an overview of implementing effective personalized professional development that supports curating and creating high-quality, rigorous OER curriculum, alongside concrete resources around competencies for educators.
Teaching Practices
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
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...
Teaching Practices
Team Collaboration: How do leaders build in time and team structures for data-driven instruction?
Personalization in classrooms requires broad, intentional use of data across schools and systems. This guide explores how leaders can foster effective data-driven instruction by setting aside time, creating structures, and offering supports needed...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today's One Thing for Teachers: Setting Up Systems of Accountability
This installment of TLA’s Today’s One Thing addresses how to set up structures for student accountability by using student-driven trackers.
