TLC’s 2025 Highlights
Though our recent lack of blog entries doesn’t show it, we’ve been really busy at The Learning Collective as of late. From developing authorizer frameworks to supporting cohorts of school founders to continuing school quality reviews across the country and securing 10 new clients & projects, TLC significantly expanded its reach and impact in 2025! […]
TLC’s 2024 Highlights
From evaluating schools’ social emotional learning programs to facilitating charter management organization board retreats to developing site visit protocols for charter school authorizers, The Learning Collective continued to expand its services and partnerships across ten states in 2024. Led the renewal visits of 16 charter schools authorized by Chicago Public Schools, including cutting-edge examinations of […]
12 Annual-Site-Visit Tips
These are some of the tips we shared with the San Joaquin County Office of Education … while updating protocols and training their staff members, and during our presentation at the 2024 CCAP (California Charter Authorizing Professionals) conference … on conducting annual charter school site visits: Focus: Target a particular improvement focus area, such as […]
5-Year Process for Successful Charter Renewal
The Learning Collective works with charter schools, including those in need of turnaround, to successfully renew their charters. In fact, all charter schools with which we’ve worked to prepare for renewal have successfully achieved renewal. The Learning Collective occupies a unique niche – our clients include charter schools AND charter school authorizers. Our authorizer clients […]
Half-Day Strategic Planning Most Valuable
Through the California Department of Education’s Public Charter Schools Grant Program, The Learning Collective has conducted external reviews of 82 charter schools. Going beyond the requirements by the California Department of Education, we have added a half-day strategic planning session which has proven to be invaluable to the schools. Watch these video testimonials from principals.
Lessons Learned from New Orleans New School Application Evaluations
For five consecutive years, The Learning Collective has conducted the third-party evaluations of all applications for new schools submitted to New Orleans Public Schools (NOLA PS). New Orleans is the only public school district in the country comprised entirely of charter schools. Here are some lessons we have learned from this important work:
TLC Leads 5-Year Goal Setting for all Tennessee Public Schools
During the 2019-20 academic year, The Learning Collective worked with the Tennessee State Board of Education to lead its board and staff members in a strategic planning and goal-setting process and to develop a new Master Plan. It was an honor to lead the process to develop the five-year direction for all Tennessee public schools representing approximately 1,000,000 […]
Large-Scale Charter Renewal Visits
Chicago Public Schools has engaged The Learning Collective to lead the in-person renewal visits, and report writing on those visits, of dozens of its authorized charter schools. The evaluations are one or two days in length and focus on one or more of the following areas:
TLC’s 2023 Highlights
From evaluating schools’ social emotional learning programs to creating new academic accountability frameworks to supporting successful renewals of charter schools, The Learning Collective continued to expand its services and partnerships across nine states in 2023. Led the renewal visits of 23 charter schools authorized by Chicago Public Schools, including cutting-edge examinations of schools’ social-emotional learning […]
2022 TLC Highlights
From white papers on post-pandemic best practices to reviews of university teacher training programs to evaluations of schools’ social emotional learning programs, The Learning Collective continued to expand its services and partnerships across eight states in 2022. Teamed with Central Michigan University and Venn Education to create a guide for 57 urban, suburban and rural […]