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 […]
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’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 […]
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: