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You understand the urgency to reach every student; there’s never been a better time to start
Activate PEOPLE
Engage students, teachers, teacher teams, and leaders in a learning-focused culture.
Align PROCESSES
Connect all actions in this cycle to one or more of the four critical questions of PLC at Work®.
Create ROUTINES
Work within a consistent routine of preparation, instruction, and analysis.
Why Accelerated Learning?
As an educator, you are an integral part of students’ lives. Your time with each child will impact their future, no matter what school or district you serve. Schools identified at the state level as underperforming or those designated as in need of comprehensive support and improvement (CSI), targeted support and improvement (TSI), or additional targeted support and improvement (ATSI) face many challenges; but we can help your staff work together to overcome the obstacles that hinder student success. Transform your existing culture into one that believes learning for all is required.
Get better faster
Our experts will work with you to assess your school or district's current reality and determine actions you can take to improve student success. In addition, we can help you prepare a school improvement plan for the structural changes needed to create a learning-focused culture.
Work quickly to diagnose challenges with our 10-day student-learning cycle
3 Phases of Learning
Pre-Instruction
Instruction
Post-Instruction
PLC Critical Question Addressed
- What do we expect students to learn?
- How will we know students are learning?
- How will we respond when students don’t learn?
- How will we respond if students already know it?
Activity Performed by
Teacher Teams
Teachers
Students
Solution Tree helps leaders:
- Build the capacity of certified and emergency certified educators to improve the quality of instruction
- Create the processes and routines to accelerate learning
- Leverage the strengths of staff and students to abandon deficit thinking
- Sustain a learning-focused school
Solution Tree helps teachers:
- Accelerate learning rather than rely on remediation
- Implement research-affirmed strategies in their classrooms
- Engage students in owning their learning
- Believe all students can learn
- Build student self-efficacy
Solution Tree helps students:
- Become partners in learning
- Learn that feedback is valued
- Embrace voice and choice in learning
- Belong to the community of learners
Solution Tree helps parents and communities:
- Celebrate success in learning
- Collaborate with teacher teams focused on learning
- Shift the narrative to positive outcomes
Transformation can start with a single decision
Glendale Elementary School District in Glendale, Arizona, has a mission to foster an environment of academic excellence through innovative learning and build tomorrow’s socially responsible leaders. Unfortunately, as happened across the country, COVID hit their 14 schools hard, and as a result, Glendale realized it needed to make radical improvements.
In response to their challenges, Superintendent Cindy Segotta-Jones and district leaders sought a way to ensure that every student had access to high-quality instruction, regardless of their starting point. The key was to create a culture in which teachers could collaborate effectively and use data-driven strategies to support student learning.
It worked.
“We are here to educate children regardless of what we are dealt . . . It’s our responsibility; we owe that to our students.”
Backed by a dedicated staff, Cindy is making good on this promise. Over the past three years, Glendale Elementary School District has made impressive strides. For example, the percentage of third-grade students meeting or exceeding proficiency rose significantly from 17.5% in the 2021–22 school year to 27.1% in 2023–24. During the same period, fifth-grade mathematics students showed notable improvement, with proficiency rates climbing from 13.4% to 20.5%.
These gains reflect the district’s dedicated focus on strengthening foundational math skills and providing targeted interventions to support all learners, helping more students not only meet standards but excel beyond them.
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Meet the creator of Accelerated Learning
Led by Sharon V. Kramer, our Accelerated Learning experts have proven success with the unique challenges of ensuring learning for all students—both as practitioners in their own schools and through their work in helping others achieve success.
