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🌟Students at Locust Grove Middle School explore career paths by selecting a “House” and completing long-term projects that align with real-world fields and industries. From writing novels to building 3-D models, students dive into hands-on learning guided by teachers. 🏛️ The Four Houses: ▪️ House of Design: Engineering, Architecture, Digital Design ▪️ Cultivating Wellness: Agriculture, Food & Healthcare Science ▪️ Center Stage: Art, Music, Stage Design, Video Broadcasting ▪️ Community & Commerce: Business, Education, Law, Justice Through project-based learning, Locust Grove is helping students turn passions into potential careers! Learn more today: https://loom.ly/w3KXNaE #K12 #ProjectBasedLearning

MindPrint Learning, Inc. is one of 10 organizations to partner with The Learning Accelerator and Mathematica as part of the first wave of their newest initiative - to scale innovative approaches to learning!

🌟 November is National Career Development Month, and we’re excited to spotlight strategies over the next four weeks that bring career exploration to students, starting with student internships! Internships offer high schoolers valuable exposure to real-world careers, letting them build professional skills and discover paths that match their strengths and interests. From flexible job-shadowing to structured placements with local coordinators, schools like Taos Academy and ASU Prep Digital are paving the way for students to gain hands-on experience. 👉 See TLA’s full strategy card for more on launching student-centered internship programs: https://loom.ly/s5FwLVk #CareerDevelopmentMonth #StudentInternships

🔎 How are teachers using all the new #AI products in classrooms? From EdWeek Market Brief: "There’s a lot of frothiness about what the tech industry is saying we can do, and not a ton of actual, concrete examples of the type of work we hope to be happening," said Beth Rabbitt, CEO of The Learning Accelerator. Earlier this month, the School Teams AI Collaborative met in Denver to discuss the risks and opportunities of using AI in the classroom and what the current research says. Throughout the school year, the Collaborative (led by The Learning Accelerator and Leading Educators) includes coaching sessions for participants, learning communities to connect teams, and the co-creation of a national resource hub to deliver its findings. Check out the full story to learn more: https://loom.ly/RoWLLdY

🚨Exciting workshop alert 🚨 Looking to explore the connection between digital equity and personalized, competency-based education? Join us at #Aurora24 for a session diving into how strengthening digital equity can strengthen PCBE models with Gregory Bagby, Ashley Fellows, and Dr. Beth Holland, EdD. We're including practitioner examples and resources to support participants in conducting digital equity audits to identify strengths and areas of growth in their contexts. Hope to see you there! November 3rd at 3:30 p.m. #digitalequity #personalizedlearning #CBE

The Learning Accelerator recently announced the launch of 'The School Teams AI Collaborative', a partnership with leading educators, aimed at harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to enhance instruction. The collaboration aims to develop guidelines and frameworks for the effective use of AI in education, with a focus on equity, accessibility, and human-centered design. The partners will work with educators, students, researchers, and practitioners to create practical resources and tools for AI implementation in schools. Learn more about the initiative here: https://hubs.la/Q02VLNHR0

Our new report with The Learning Accelerator highlights valuable #schoolimprovement strategies of 2023 #SchoolOnTheMove finalists East Boston High School, Boston Green Academy, and Fenway High School that have transformed their high schools. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eBv36iHR

Denver Public Schools has joined a new partnership between two nonprofit organizations, The Learning Accelerator and Leading Educators, to close the disconnect between how AI products get developed, and what actually proves useful in the classroom. The project, called the School Teams AI Collaborative, kicked off last week at 19 schools (3 from Denver 🎉) in nine cities across the country, with teams of educators and school leaders beginning work on developing uses for AI tools in the classroom, testing those efforts, and documenting progress throughout the 2024-25 school year. Felicia Maestas William Sayers, Ed.L.D. Kali Peracchia Simone Wright, Ed.L.D. https://lnkd.in/grbmKFGb

Friendship Online Academy consists of two programs: 1️⃣ A virtual public charter school for K-8 students — the only approved online school in Washington, D.C. 2️⃣ An online academy for students in grades 9-12 at Friendship Collegiate High School. Selected as one of six sites for TLA's Exponential Learning Initiative, Friendship Online Academy showcases how it blends synchronous and asynchronous learning to provide students with the flexibility to thrive. Whether engaging in live lessons or completing independent work, students experience a learning journey designed for success and engagement. 🔗 Want to learn more about their model, including their conditions for success? Check out their school profile here: https://loom.ly/JvNZ14k #K12 #VirtualLearning #EdTech

EdWeek Market Brief spotlit the School Teams AI Collaborative, a collaboration between The Learning Accelerator and Leading Educators. Read more about the initiative and how we are hoping to surface and codify promising ways AI can be used in instruction. "The national narrative around using AI in education has 'cast educators as either totally on board or skeptics,' said Beth Rabbitt, of the Learning Accelerator. 'The reality is most educators are in the middle, saying ‘Help me figure out how to use this in a coherent way that actually helps my students.'” “Oftentimes technology is just designed for educators to use. This is an opportunity for educators to also design their own tools, to interact with technologists, and to think about, ‘What does it actually look like for my kids in my classroom? What are the problems that we need to solve?’” said Chong-Hao Fu, CEO of Leading Educators. #edtech #schools #edleadership #edchat