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Empathy Interviews and Co-Design Sessions
Monterey Peninsula took a design-thinking approach to identify challenges, listen to students, and co-design solutions.
Artifacts
Innovative Learning Implementation Framework
TLA has found there are common implementation components – “conditions for scale” – that support planning, adoption, and scaling of innovative initiatives. Leaders seeking to implement work in classrooms must align critical supports, systems, and...
Strategies
Podcasts: TLA's "Beyond Brick and Mortar"
The "Beyond Brick and Mortar" podcast series features leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. as they discuss what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn along the way.
Artifacts
Chicopee Public Schools’ EdTech Website
Chicopee Public Schools developed a public-facing website to share key edtech information as part of their participation in the EdTech Peer Learning Cohort facilitated by TLA in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and...
Artifacts
Charting a Course for AI in K-12 Education: Recommendations for Coordinated Action
This companion resource to Bridging Urgent to Future offers concrete, role-specific recommendations for SEA leaders, LEA leaders, funders, and researchers to take coordinated action on AI in education. Using the Hop, Skip, Leapfrog framework, it...
Artifacts
Raising Blended Learners Competency Convening Agenda
An agenda used by Cisco and other Raising Blended Learners districts to take an in-depth look at innovative leadership competencies.
Strategies
Clearly Defining Definitions of “Tight” and “Loose”
Leaders in Henry County, GA, formally laid out different responsibilities for schools and for the district.
Strategies
Developing a Culture of Experimentation
How to provide individual or groups of teachers opportunities to drive their own investigation and acquisition of new digital tools or digital content.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today’s One Thing for Leaders: Hiring Teachers in a Remote Setting, Part 2 – Teacher Onboarding
This installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders explores the process of onboarding new teachers in a remote environment.
Strategies
School-Based Budget Decision Making with District-Facilitated Support
To support school leaders in building decision-making skills and autonomy around school-based budgeting, Hopkins Public Schools provided district-facilitated support to school leaders.
Strategies
Guide: Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined
The Center on Reinventing Public Education investigated policies that "get in the way" of principal actions to pursue personalized learning. In it, the authors find that many barriers are imaginary- leaders can find workarounds to drive change.
