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Reflecting on Hops, Skips, and Leaps at Taos Academy Charter
In this Insight, Elizabeth LeBlanc shares some of the hops, skips, and leaps Taos Academy Charter has made during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate effective teaching and learning – and examines what they'll take forward with them.
Guides
Digital Equity: Essential Conditions to Support Digital Equity
The concept of digital equity is nuanced and complex. Beyond ensuring powerful access and meaningful use, it also incorporates the surrounding ecosystem. To fully realize the promise of the learning opportunities presented in the previous section,...
Teaching Practices
Virtual Learning: What types of supports enable successful student-driven learning?
Learning virtually can create opportunities for students to work flexibly, self-direct, and access the personalized resources they need. However, learning independently online can also pose a host of new challenges. Educators can proactively address...
Teaching Practices
Virtual Learning: How can I engage families remotely to connect, collaborate, and support them as partners for students?
Strong relationships and communication with families (including parents, guardians, and other adults at home) is a vital and often under-utilized force for students' ongoing success, especially when learning occurs in a virtual setting. Explore this...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Measuring Unfinished Learning: A Guide for Schools and Systems to Understand and Measure Student Progress
This insight investigates how education leaders can take an asset-based approach to measuring student learning, offering concrete processes and methodology to examine learner growth during times of disruption to student learning.
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: How do you begin to measure student progress during disruption?
Measuring unfinished learning requires a strategic measurement process that starts with reviewing data, creating strong research questions, and collecting data. This process will help make connections between learning mastery and enabling structures...
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What system conditions are needed to address unfinished learning?
Although long-term, systemic inequities ultimately need to be addressed, unfinished learning presents an immediate challenge. In the short term, schools and districts can organize their current systems around learner-centered principles and...
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What is the process for effectively organizing, analyzing, and making sense of data?
Analyzing and making sense of your data will allow you to find and interpret patterns, creating opportunities to develop meaningful and sustainable plans to address unfinished learning.
Examples From The Field
Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS)
VLACS is a nonprofit charter school in NH that offers elementary, middle, and high school programs.
Examples From The Field
Laurel Springs School
Laurel Springs School is a private, tuition-based online school for K-12 students. The school attracts students from across the U.S. and the world, with a focus on learners whose schedules and needs may not align with traditional seat-time...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leveraging Virtual and Hybrid Learning to Increase Course Access: Guidance for State Leaders
This guidance highlights a number of the considerations that states are making about their course access programs, demonstrates models states have developed based on these considerations, and provides resources to help states address critical...
