Access the skills, guidance, and support you need to bring your innovative learning plans to life.

Schools across the nation are increasingly pursuing innovative approaches to make learning more personalized, mastery-based, and supportive of whole child development. Access to quality consultants and external support can be a common, critical component to success. But finding the right provider at the right time can be tricky, so the Innovative Learning Expert Hub (ILEx) is here to help!

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    about essential components of high-quality implementation, and find strategies employed by other school leaders.

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    with individuals and organizations who can help you with your innovative learning implementation.

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  • Leverage

    our project matching services to get support for your innovative learning project, big or small.

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What is Innovative Learning?

Schools across the nation have moved towards increasingly innovative approaches to teaching and learning. While differing in specific structures and strategies, these models promote comprehensive and holistic student development by employing a variety of strategies—including the use of new tools and practices—to make learning more personalized and focused on mastery of learning. These innovative approaches, which go by a variety of different names such as “blended,” “personalized,” “mastery-based,”and “next generation,” recognize the wide variety of strengths, interests, approaches, and challenges that young people bring to their learning experiences. In innovative learning environments, adults employ approaches of continuous, iterative, reflective, and data-informed learning to find creative ways to meet student needs so all young people can reach their full and unique potential.
Regardless of your specific innovative model, the quality of implementation matters most. See our framework outlining key supports needed for innovative learning.

Catalyst:Ed is a national nonprofit that harnesses the collective expertise in education to help education organizations innovate, excel and scale, so all students have access to an excellent and equitable education. Catalyst:Ed’s Expert Hubs offer intentional supports and connections to leaders who want to start or advance their work in high-impact areas like innovative learning and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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This Expert Hub was created with support from The Learning Accelerator. TLA is a national nonprofit helping to make the ‘potential’ possible and practical for every teacher and learner. TLA envisions a future in which each student receives an effective, equitable, and engaging education – one that is informed by data and supported by technology – enabling them to reach their full and unique potential. Its mission is to connect teachers and leaders with the knowledge, tools, and networks they need to enact personalized and mastery-based practices to transform K-12 education.