The Education Week Mini-Course is an email-based course carefully constructed by EdWeek experts to teach you what you need to know about critical education issues in bite-sized chunks. You won’t need to go to class or complete assignments, but you will come out of the course with the confidence to develop your own action plan. Here's a few things to know:

• After signing up, you will get an email with more information
• Once the mini-course begins, you’ll receive emails every week, but feel free to take it at your own pace
• A pre- and post-quiz will reinforce your learning
• You can make this a professional learning team activity by telling your colleagues to sign up
• You will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course for 3 hours of professional learning

• Concise, straightforward explanations from EdWeek writers and editors on what learning acceleration is, how it works, and why it’s critical to helping students recover from pandemic disruptions
• Lessons from leading-edge research on acceleration across grades and subject areas
• Examples of strategies teachers are using to fill knowledge and skills gaps while staying on pace in the curriculum
• Advice from experts in the field on how to fix common problems of practice
• Actionable steps teachers can use to boost student learning with available resources
• Deeper, more nuanced understanding of pandemic-era teaching challenges and how school leaders can best support their staff

Each week, you will be immersed in a different aspect of learning acceleration:

Week 1 | Introduction to Learning Acceleration
Week 2 | Diagnosing and Assessing Learning Gaps
Week 3 | Differentiating Learning
Week 4 | Tutoring
Week 5 | Boosting Student Confidence

This course originally launched April 4, 2023.