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Roots Executive Director Discusses His Role
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discussed his role and how he works with his co-leader to support the school model. Transcript: Jon Hanover: So, it's definitely us working together. Jill's taken the lead on all of the tech stuff, and I've...
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Roots Executive Director Discussing Pilot Process for Software
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares how the team thinks about and executes the piloting and selecting of new technologies based upon identified needs. Transcript: Jon Hanover: Yeah, so our process pretty much looked like this, we'd...
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Teacher Explains Calendar Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, how she uses Google Calendar to support daily instruction and student workflow.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: the way that we know where to be and what to do is – everything is run off of Google Calendars for us. So...
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Roots Student Schedule
This picture shows two students Monday and Tuesday schedules at Roots so that you can see how flexible scheduling allows for personalization.
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Teacher Explains Student iPads Use for Scheduling at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, shares how iPads are introduced to and used by students throughout the school day and year.Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: In the beginning, it was really tricky. The iPads are obviously something that are totally new...
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Teacher Discusses Schedule Coordination at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, discusses the structure of her school day Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: Our day is broken up into a lot of different parts, and so it's basically a matter of organizing those different parts of the day in your...
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Master Schedules for Coordination
Using a series of simple rules to make sure students' time is not double-booked.
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Teacher Discusses How She Modifies Her Time to Meet Students' Needs at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, shares how she prioritizes small-group instruction time given competing needs and demands within a personalized learning environment. Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: I divide based on what I think kids need the most. So,...
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Teacher Discusses Priorities for Monitoring Independent Learning Time at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, discusses the "ladder of priorities" for monitoring and supporting students during independent learning time. Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: every flex center has a monitor for that center, and they have...
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Teacher Discusses Small Group Instruction at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains the scheduling and sizing of small groups.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: But the other part of the day, for me, is small groups. So, I – I'm scheduled groups of kids based on very specific needs, based on data that...
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Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groups
Students are assigned to both homogeneous and heterogeneous groups to support learning.
