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From Urgent to Future: A Roadmap for Embedding Learning Acceleration within the Instructional Core
This white paper sets a vision for reimagining learning acceleration as a systemwide approach to teaching and learning—one that moves beyond short-term recovery or supplemental programs to become part of the instructional core. Grounded in field...
Teaching Practices
“Prix Fixe” vs. “A la Carte”: Should we scale a comprehensive model throughout our system or provide access to a series of independent, modular resources or tools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating a central “prix fixe” implementation model vs offering more flexible “a la carte” options and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Using a Readiness Assessment to Efficiently Structure Roll-Out
How to determine sequencing for rolling out resources and supports to schools across the system.
Strategies
Deliberately Creating a Culture of Change
How to address mindset shift productively when making a district-wide instructional shift.
Strategies
Scaling Using a Cohort Model
How to ensure consistency of implementation across the system at a pace that works for all schools.
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.
Teaching Practices
Knowing the “Why": How do leaders communicate with new teachers around the purpose and vision of their innovative models?
Clearly communicating the “why” behind a school’s innovative model – not just the model itself – is an essential strategy for building new teachers’ abilities to understand and implement. This guide will explore various ways schools and districts...
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...
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.
Teaching Practices
Digital Design: How can leaders build educator capacity to leverage technology as a core component of instruction?
This Problem of Practice offers school leaders three approaches to ensure all teachers have access to the resources, support, and capacity needed to effectively integrate technology into their classrooms.
Artifacts
From Urgent to Future: Charting a Course for AI in K-12 Education
This report examines how the rise of generative AI is reshaping the K-12 education landscape. It outlines a bold, student-centered vision that reimagines what students learn, how they learn it, and why. The paper offers a roadmap for policymakers...
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