Lessons Learned from Culture & Climate Renewal Visits in Chicago
In late 2023, The Learning Collective led 23 in-person renewal visits of charter schools authorized by Chicago Public Schools. Most of those visits (18) focused exclusively on schools’ culture and climate. This is a new direction, begun in 2022, that CPS’s Office of Innovation and Incubation and The Learning Collective have embarked on together. Theory […]
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 […]
Large-Scale Charter Renewal Visits
In Fall 2022, Chicago Public Schools engaged The Learning Collective to lead the in-person renewal visits, and report writing on those visits, of 20 of its authorized charter schools. The evaluations are one or two days in length and focus on one or more of the following three areas:
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 […]
2021 TLC Highlights
From leadership coaching to acting as an expert witness, The Learning Collective continued to expand its services and partnerships in seven states in 2021.
2020 TLC Highlights
Despite, and in some respects because of, the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a very busy year for The Learning Collective. Our diverse clients and projects spanned ten states. We:
2019 TLC Highlights
2019 was a productive years for The Learning Collective. We led strategic planning projects with some new clients, such as Discovery Charter School and the Beginning with Children education network in New York, and with authorizers such as those through our partnership with Oklahoma Public School Resource Center.