The Acceleration Route
Your companion site for The Acceleration Route: A Driver’s Guide to Student Success
Here, you’ll find tools, videos, and downloadables to help you accelerate learning at the district, school, and classroom levels.
Why Acceleration Matters More Than Ever
Our book has 7 chapters to help you along your journey!
Click each title to view it’s dedicated page!
“Acceleration vs. Remediation” Quick Reference Guide
Traditional remediation practices have kept many learners in neutral—stuck below grade level and struggling to catch up. The Acceleration Route offers a better path. With just-in-time supports, high-impact strategies, and a focus on grade-level content, acceleration helps learners close gaps while continuing to move forward.
Why It Matters:
The latest research confirms that remediation alone fails to close learning gaps, while acceleration improves outcomes by ensuring learners engage with grade-level content while building missing skills along the way.
Use this guide as your dashboard check—a quick resource to ensure your instructional choices are keeping learners on track, not holding them back.
The Acceleration Framework
Stage 1: Start the Engine – Set the Pace for Acceleration
🔑 Turn on your instructional systems by aligning curriculum, professional learning, and acceleration goals to ensure every learner is ready for grade-level success.
Stage 2: Check the Mirrors – Build Strong Foundations
👀 Build relationships, strengthen classroom culture, and ensure educators are aware of learners’ needs before pressing the gas. A clear view of strengths and gaps prevents blind spots in learning.
Stage 3: Set Your GPS – Leverage Data for Acceleration
🗺️ Use data to map your route. Formative assessments, progress monitoring, and performance trends guide your instructional path to keep learning on course.
Stage 4: Give Students the Wheel – Strengthen Learner Ownership
🚘 Empower students to drive their learning through goal-setting, self-monitoring, and meaningful choices that build agency and engagement.
Stage 5: Shift into Drive – Implement High-Impact Instruction
⛽ Accelerate learning with high-impact strategies like inquiry-based instruction, scaffolding, and rigorous tasks that keep learners moving forward at grade level.
Stage 6: Maintain Cruise Control – Sustain Engagement & Momentum
🛤️ Keep learning on track with technology, feedback loops, and responsive teaching that maintain curiosity, engagement, and long-term progress.