Beth is a prolific writer who contributes to a number of publications. Her work has been featured on Edsurge, EdWeek, Edutopia, Getting Smart, and MindShift.

Academic Publications & Research

• Ford, V., Holland, B., Rabbitt, B., & Mick, R. (2022). Building Community and Capacity: the Effects of the First Year of LUSD’s Teacher Residency Program. The Learning Accelerator. https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/artifacts/report-building-community-and-capacity-the-effects-of-the-first-year-of-lusds-teacher-residency-program
• Tate, T., Holland, B., Karaoke, S., Rabbitt, B., & Warschauer, M. (2022). Personalized Professional Learning During a Pandemic. The Learning Accelerator. https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/artifacts/report-personalized-professional-learning-during-a-pandemic
• Holland, B. (2022).From Digital Access to Digital Equity: Critical Barriers That Leaders and Policymakers Must Address to Move Beyond “Boxes & Wires”. The Learning Accelerator. https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/artifacts/from-digital-access-to-digital-equity-critical-challenges-that-leaders-and-policymakers-must-address-to-move-beyond-boxes-wires
• Dieterle, E., Holland, B., & Dede, C. (2021). The cyclical effects of ethical decisions involving big data and digital learning platforms. In E. B. Mandinach & E. S. Gummer (Eds.), Issues in ethical use of data in education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• Holland, B., Larkins, H., & Rabbit, B. (2021). Digital Equity: A Guide for School & System Leaders. The Learning Accelerator. https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/guides/digital-equity/introduction
• Holland, B., Thornton, M., Rabbitt, B. (2021). Creating a Culture of Adult Wellbeing at School: Investing in Adults to Support Students. The Learning Accelerator. https://learningaccelerator.org/personalizing-learning-for-educators
• Holland, B., McLemore, C., Thornton, M., Rabbitt, B. (2021). Learning Found, Not Lost: Examining Learner Growth and Supports in LUSD During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis. The Learning Accelerator. https://learningaccelerator.org/personalizing-learning-for-educators
• Holland B., Zhang, L., & Rabbitt, B. (2020). Effects of professional learning opportunities on learner growth: Cluster Analysis. The Learning Accelerator. Retrieved from https://learningaccelerator.org/personalizing-learning-for-educators
• Holland B., Rabbitt, B., & Zhang, L. (2020). Perceptions of learner behaviors and actions during personalized, remote learning: An analysis of the Instructional LookFors in LUSD. The Learning Accelerator. Retrieved from https://learningaccelerator.org/personalizing-learning-for-educators
• Holland B. & Rabbitt, B. (2020). Effects of professional learning opportunities on learner growth: Initial analysis of the impact of personalized professional learning on learner growth. The Learning Accelerator. Retrieved from https://learningaccelerator.org/personalizing-learning-for-educators
• Holland, B. (2020). Artificial Intelligence (AI) in K-12. Version 1.0 Consortium for School Networking
• Coiro, J., Sparks, J. R., Kiili, C., Castek, J., Lee, C., & Holland, B. R. (2019). Students Engaging in Multiple-Source Inquiry Tasks: Capturing Dimensions of Collaborative Online Inquiry and Social Deliberation. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/2381336919870285
• Holland, B. & Bryant, C. (2019). Improving communication between public school leaders to support systemic innovation: A mixed-methods intervention study. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. doi:10.302/1440839
• Holland, B. (2018). Technology as a cultural catalyst. Access Points (ATLIS), 2, 5-7. Retrieved from https://www.theatlis.org/access-points-our-journal-
• Holland, B. (2018, May 21). Research to practice: What a failed intervention taught me about needs assessments. Johns Hopkins School of Education Institute for Education Policy. Retrieved from http://edpolicy.education.jhu.edu/research-to-practice-what-a-failed-intervention-taught-me-about-needs-assessments/
• Holland, B. (2017). What technology in the classroom?. In James, D. & Warwick, I. (Eds), World Class: Tackling the ten biggest challenges facing schools today. New York: Routledge.

The Learning Accelerator Blog (2020-Present)

• Without Ethics, Digital Equity is Impossible: Three Questions Leaders Must Answer
• More Than Mindfulness: Strategies to Improve the Wellbeing of Educators and Leaders in Schools
• A Growing Danger of the Digital Use Divide: A Media Illiterate Generation
• There’s No Digital Equity Without Data Privacy
• New Tools Support Our Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid Cohorts
• Barriers, Challenges, and Empathy in Fostering Broadband Access
• School Leaders: Four Focus Areas for the Fall
• Looking Back and Looking Forward: Lessons from Lindsay Unified School District
• Defining and Measuring the ‘Personal’ in Personalized Learning

Edutopia

2019-2022

• Keys to Successful Professional Learning
• 3 Steps School Leaders Can Take to Support Teachers Right Now
• Celebrating Student Growth With Formative Data
• 4 Focus Areas for School Leaders This Fall
• How Phones Can Facilitate Distance Learning
• Starting Small Helps Keep Innovation Manageable

2018

• A Better Way to Integrate Edtech
• Arriving at a New Definition of Learning
• Smoothing the Way for Change

2017

• The Art of Reflection
• Inquiry and the Research Process
• Note Taking with Technology (refresh of 2014 article)
• Are We Innovating or Just Digitizing Traditional Teaching?
• Reframing the Debate About Screen Time

2016

• The Best App for Your Coursework Isn’t a Single App
• Take Note: How to Curate Learning Digitally
• Design Thinking & PBL

2015

• The Year of Agency
• Digital Portfolios: The Art of Reflection
• 5 Ideas to Kick Start Your Summer Learning
• “Fitting In” PBL
• 4 Tips to Transform Your Learning Space

2014

• 21st Century Libraries
• Innovation: Significant Positive Change
• Building Your EdTech Ecosystem
• The 4Ss of Note Taking With Technology
• The First 5s with iPads
• Cardboard Box Tools
• 3 Digital Reading Challenges for Summer
• The Future of Learning
• The Backchannel: Giving Every Student a Voice in the Blended Mobile Classroom
• Tools for Professional Learning: Curate, Share, Connect
• Chrome Smashing: Creating the Inconceivable
• Barbaric Yawp in the 21st Century: Using Tech to Engage Budding Poets
• Teaching the Essential Skills of the Mobile Classroom

2013

• Projects to Engage Middle School Readers
• Building Technology Fluency: Preparing Students to be Digital Learners
• Creating a Custom Reading Experience with Mobile Devices
• Redefining the Writing Process with iPads
• The Flipped Mobile Classroom: Learning “Upside Down”
• Creating a “Least Restrictive Environment” with Mobile Devices
• Apps for Note-Taking with iPads
• The Balance of Screen Time
• Redefining Learning Through Screencasting
• Back to School with iPads: 5 Steps for the First 5 Days
• Didn’t Your Mother Tell You Not to Google?
• iPads: From Pedagogical Crutch to Education Innovation
• Introducing Social Media to Elementary Students

EdTech Researcher at Education Week

2018

• Understanding the Potential for Social Networks in Education Reform
• From Digital Divide to Innovation Divide?
• The Side Effects of Education: Research and Practice
• The Side Effects of Education: Understanding Perspectives
• The Side Effects of Education: A History Lesson
• Design Thinking: From Process to Culture
• The Purpose of Education: Workforce Development or Lifelong Learning?
• Critically Thinking About Critical Thinking
• From Final Exam to Defense of Learning
• From Pockets of Innovation to Systems of Inspired Learning
• Pockets of Innovation – The Quest for Inspired Learning
• From Educational Innovation to Inspired Learning
• To Change the Narrative Around Education, We Need More Voices
• Is Technology the “Elephant in the Room”?
• The Quest for Creativity in Schools

2017

• 2018 – The Year of Agency, Take 2
• Three Questions to Guide Your Evaluation of Educational Research
• For Computer Science Ed Week – Teach Thinking NOT Coding
• From Thought to Action – Taking Control of Innovation
• The Worldwide Educating for the Future Index – A Blueprint for Change
• 101 Apps NOT Mentioned in this Post
• To Ban or Not to Ban? Technology, Education, and the Media
• Research “Proves” – Very Little
• Research “Says” – Or Does It?
• Building Culture and Community in the First Five Days, Weeks, and Months
• Memory, Transfer, & Metacognition – Defining Learning
• From “EduSpeak” to a Language of Pedagogy
• The Power of Paradigms to Transform Education
• A Multicultural Perspective on Technology in Schools
• Teaching 21st Century Skills Requires More Than Just Technology
• To Measure Change, We Need to Move Beyond Quantitative Research
• Use Design Thinking to Mitigate Bias and Resistance to Change
• To Build Computational Thinking Skills – Harness the Power of Play
• The Future of Education Reform – Lessons Learned at SXSWedu
• From Technology to Learning – Time to Shift the Conversation
• To Ensure Success, First Define the Black Box of Innovation
• Use Design Thinking to Creat an Opportunity to Learn
• The Unintended Consequences of Innovation

2016

• 3 Critical Competencies for the Future – Preparing Students to Thrive in 2020
• Finding the Greater Purpose in 1-to-1 Technology Programs
• Project Based Learning as Mindset
• An “Extraordinary” Approach to Bringing Design into Any Classroom
• Digital vs Analog Reading: The Paradox of Paper
• PBL and Design Thinking to Unleash Student Creativity
• Use Design Thinking to Develop Critical Skills for a Global Economy
• 5,220 Hours of Teacher Professional Development, 1 Critical Objective
• When Searching Leads to Powerful Learning
• Applying Learning to Teaching and Teaching to Learning
• A Design Thinking Approach to Working with Millennials
• Design Thinking in the Elementary Classroom: the Power of Empathy
• The Key to Transforming Instruction: Learning How to Learn
• iPads, Chromebooks, and the Process of Writing
• Climbing the Pyramid of Bloom’s Taxonomy Through the Writing Process
• Empathy, Strategy, and Edupreneurship: Fostering a Culture of Innovation
• Spirals of Innovation in Schools – From Pockets of Excellence to Sustained Change
• Innovation in Practice: Transforming Classroom Culture in a 1-to-1 Model
• Design Thinking and Project Based Learning to Scaffold Innovation
• Tossing Professional Development: New Ways to Talk About Teacher Learning
• Research to Support Innovation in Schools
• Innovation in Schools: Changing Environment, Behaviors, and Beliefs
• Publishing and Sharing to Motivate Students and Inspire Teachers
• Protect Student Data and Privacy in the Cloud – Come Join the Conversation
• Tagging and Digital Note Taking Make Thinking Visible

2015

• How to Design a Smarter Room for Learning
• Bridging the Abstract and Concrete to Impact Learning
• The Greatest Ed-Tech Generation Ever
• Assessing Innovation – a Case Study Approach to Teacher Evaluation Systems
• Freedom to Learn: Inspiring Students in Constructivist Math Classrooms
• Gaming in Education Holds Power for Student Learning
• Operationalizing the Information Age, Knowledge Economy, 21st Century
• Beyond the Buzzword of Metacognition
• Reflecting on Tinkering Toward Utopia
• What Drives Student Learning?
• Backchannels and Brain Research: Help or Hindrance?
• Using Design Thinking to Bridge Theory & Practice with Digital Portfolios
• A Call to Action for the First Day of School
• Developing a New Metric for Assessing Learning
• 4 Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation

EdSurge

• Why Digital Equity Is About So Much More Than Access and Infrastructure
• Beyond the Binder: 3 Strategies for Empowering Digital Tool Use in the Classroom

Free Technology for Teachers

• Harnessing Technology to Unleash Student Creativity
• Digital Note Taking with OneNote
• The Great Debate: Graphic Organizers vs Mindmaps
• Beyond Assessment: 3 Other Uses for Socrative
• Now Take Notes on Drive Videos with VideoNot.es
• Active Reading Strategies Using the DocHub Chrome App
• Use Sketch Toy to Create Quick Animated Images
• Organizing Research with Diigo Outliner
• NEWSELA + Google Docs = Differentiated, Collaborative Reading!
• Get Organized for Back-to-School with Trello
• Linking Projects, Ideas, and Concepts with Popplet
• Three Approaches for Getting Content to Elementary Students’ iPads – No Email, No Problem
• Four Approaches to Getting Content OFF Elementary Students’ iPads – No Email, No Problem, Part 2