Maricopa County Learning Acceleration Partnership

Learning losses caused by the disruptions of COVID-19 have persisted long past the pandemic. Efforts focused on remediation of missed content have seen little success, and deny students access to rigorous, grade-level content. The Learning Acceleration Partnership (LAP) pairs teachers with Learning Acceleration Specialists in student-centered coaching cycles to support teachers’ in providing students with targeted foundations for grade-level learning, reducing the need for remediation and focusing on student mastery of crucial skills.

Learning Acceleration practices are small additions to lessons with large implications for student learning in the post-pandemic educational landscape. Fourth grade student scores on the NAEP reading and math assessments have declined or remained the same since 2019, with students below the 25th percentile seeing the largest declines. The need for evidence-based, rigorous supports that provide students with challenging grade-level content has never been higher.