TLC Renewal Prep Commercial & AI Initiative
Click here to watch TLC’s new commercial created by our trusty intern using the Google Veo AI tool! This is an exciting time for us. Fall 2025 will be one of our busiest consulting seasons ever. We have nearly 10 trips planned that will keep us on the road for most of October and November […]
Free Board Retreat to Set Your School Apart
Adam Aberman of The Learning Collective is partnering with Dan Pasek of Impact Charters to provide a free 3-hour board retreat. Why: Our combined 60 years of experience working with schools have taught us that, especially in this competitive market, charter schools have to set themselves apart in the eyes of families, teachers, school leaders […]
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 […]
Findings from Charter Management Organization Board Retreats
The Learning Collective has increasingly been facilitating retreats for charter management organizations, including for Beginning with Children Foundation (New York) and TMSA Public Charter Schools (North Carolina). We’ve enjoyed those engagements and look forward to continuing to expand that work. We’ve learned quite a few things from facilitating those, and other, board retreats including: There […]
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 …Â 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 […]
Technical Assistance TLC Provides to Schools
The Learning Collective has been providing technical assistance to schools and non-profits for many years. Some of our work has been assistance with discrete instructional tasks while other assistance can be thought of more broadly as helping the school carry out its strategic plan, or what is known in California as the Local Control and […]
Lessons Learned from Culture & Climate Renewal Visits in Chicago
From 2022-2024, The Learning Collective has led 57 in-person renewal visits of charter schools authorized by Chicago Public Schools. Many of those visits have focused on schools’ culture and climate. This is a new direction that CPS’s Office of Innovation and Incubation and The Learning Collective have embarked on together. Theory of Action: If we […]
Time for Charter Schools’ Strategic Planning
The academic aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic continue affected students across the country. While the pandemic led to many students’ unfinished learning, it also created a unique opportunity to reflect on how schools could best meet the needs of their students. The Learning Collective can help schools and their boards of directors determine the best […]
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.