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Blog Series: Scaling Evidence-Based Edtech in Postsecondary Education
The shift to online learning due to COVID-19 appears here to stay – with a lasting increase in the share ...
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Leveraging Technology to Support Students with Disabilities: A Conversation with Adrienne Woods
In the latest episode of The SRI Homeroom podcast, SRI Senior Education Researcher Adrienne Woods joins host Kori Hamilton Biagas ...
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The Latest Takes on Generative AI in Education
Generative AI is taking center stage at many education conferences this year. Educators, administrators, developers, investors, policymakers, and researchers across ...
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Designing and Scaling for Educational Impact in Rural Communities: Five Takeaways for Researchers and Developers
The LEARN network recently hosted a panel discussion with scholars and practitioners who understand the unique considerations required to design, ...
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Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Conversation with the STARI Team
In the latest edition of the SRI Homeroom podcast, host Kori Hamilton Biagas sat down with Margaret Troyer and Kala ...
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When Students Have a Say in Educational Innovation: A Conversation with Ela Joshi
The LEARN Network’s Ela Joshi sat down with host of The SRI Homeroom podcast Kori Hamilton Biagas to break down ...
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How to Scale Evidence-Based Approaches: Four Insights from Rob Horner
In the late 1980s, Rob Horner and George Sugai developed Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), an evidence-based framework to ...
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Supplemental Reading Programs in Action: Five Lessons from the LEARN Network Product Teams
In early February, the LEARN network partnered with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) to host a conversation with leaders ...
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Scaling for System-Level Change: A Conversation with Suzanne Donovan and Vanessa Coleman
Suzanne Donovan, executive director of the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) Institute, and Vanessa Coleman, co-director of SRI’s Center for ...
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Matching Promising Theories with the Daily Realities of Users: A Conversation with LEARN Network Lead Rebecca Griffiths
LEARN Network lead Rebecca Griffiths recently had a conversation with the SRI Homeroom podcast host Kori Hamilton Biagas. They discussed ...
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Engaging Both Hearts and Minds in Design, Development, and Evaluation: A Conversation with Vanessa Coleman
LEARN Network advisor Vanessa Coleman chatted with host of The SRI Homeroom podcast Kori Hamilton Biagas to discuss her vision ...
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Scaling A2i: A Conversation with Jay Connor and Sarah Siegal (Part 1)
Jay Connor, CEO of Learning Ovations, and Sarah Siegal, director of research and practice at Scholastic and former vice president ...
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Scaling A2i: A Conversation with Jay Connor and Sarah Siegal (Part 2)
This blog post is part 2 of a three-part series highlighting key takeaways from a conversation with Jay Connor, CEO ...
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Scaling A2i: A Conversation with Jay Connor and Sarah Siegal (Part 3)
This blog post is part 3 in a three-part series highlighting key takeaways from a conversation with Jay Connor, CEO ...
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Scaling the Science of Reading with the TRI-Reading App: A conversation with Mary Bratsch-Hines and Heather Aiken
Mary Bratsch-Hines and Heather Aiken, leaders of the evidence-based product Targeted Reading Instruction (TRI), recently sat down with host of ...
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Taking the First Step: Strategies for Effective Knowledge Mobilization
Blog 2 in a two-part series on knowledge mobilization. In this second blog post, I’ll focus on how you can ...
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Mobilizing Knowledge Along the Path from Research to Practice
Blog 1 in a two-part series on knowledge mobilization. One of the truths I’ve learned over my time as an ...
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Experts Share Scaling Strategies at the ED Games Expo
The annual ED Games Expo, part of the Institute of Education Sciences’ (IES’) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, creates ...
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ED/IES SBIR: Advancing Research to Practice at Scale in Education
The Department of Education and Institute of Education Sciences Small Business Innovation Research Program (known as ED/IES SBIR), funds projects ...
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Scaling Educational Products in Rural Communities: A Conversation with Allen Pratt
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, approximately one in five public school students are enrolled in a school ...
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Who’s Who in District Procurement of Educational Products
School districts are typically the entryway for educational products to make it into the hands of students and teachers. However, ...
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Lessons for Equitably Scaling Deeper Learning
Thinking critically, working collaboratively, communicating effectively, learning how to learn—these are the types of deeper learning competencies that students will ...
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Strategies for Bridging the Research-Practice Gap in Education
One of the central goals of the LEARN Network is to help educational products that already have a strong evidence ...
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When a Theory of Change Fails to Meet a Problem of Practice
When researchers seek to create a product, program, or intervention to enhance educational outcomes for students, they often start from ...
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What does it mean to “scale” an educational product?
“Scaling” a product in business typically means moving from a small number of “early adopters” to a larger number of ...
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Using the Invent-Apply-Transition Framework to Design Educational Innovations for Scale
Wide use of evidence-based educational innovations has the potential to accelerate learning and enhance outcomes for all learners. However, even ...
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Designing and Scaling Equity-Focused Educational Products
When designing and scaling evidence-based educational products, it is critical to ensure they are relevant and accessible to the communities ...
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New IES network seeks to scale solutions to learning loss
The Leveraging Evidence to Accelerate Recovery Nationwide (LEARN) network, a new three-year grant funded by the Institute of Education Sciences ...