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Piloting Mastery-Based Grading
In response to the high failure rates seen during the pandemic, Monterey Peninsula shifted its grading system to be more focused on standards mastery.
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Leveraging Multiple, Consistent Channels for Community Communications
Ector County Independent School DistrictSuperintendent Scott Muri shares how the district uses a variety of platforms to communicate to families including local television news outlets, social media, and Spanish radio.
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Partnering with Community Leaders to Problem-Solve
Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how he began meeting weekly with other community leaders at the beginning of the pandemic to strategize how to get their messaging across effectively to keep their community...
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Leveraging Local Media to Communicate with Multilingual Families
Ector County Independent School District held a weekly press conference with every local media outlet to update the public on the status of schools during the pandemic and to share updates on teaching and learning practices. Every other week, they...
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Setting Expectations Through Surveys
As students and teachers return to in-person learning, it is important to align on expectations, leverage learnings and students' skills from remote instruction, and design experiences that will support students in effective ways.
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Episode 8: Metro Nashville Public Schools on Relationship-Building, Family Engagement, and Remote Support During COVID
On this episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, we speak with Dr. Keri Randolph, Executive Officer...
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Episode 11: Ector County ISD on Community Internet Access, Personalized PD, and Strong Home-School Connections
On this final episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, we speak with Scott Muri, Superintendent of...
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Stronger Together: A Guidebook for the Safe Reopening of California's Public Schools
This was a guide put out by the California Department of Education and is meant to be a a guide for local discussion on reopening schools and not a one-size-fits-all document. This guide provides checklists, essential questions for consideration,...
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School Reopening Surveys from Panorama Education
Panorama developed back-to-school survey content to help school districts understand and take action on what students, families, teachers, and staff need to feel supported in the return to in-person learning.
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Milford High School Back to School Updates
Principal Josh Otlin sent weekly updates to parents and students during the lead-up to reopening their school building in the fall of 2020. This is the newsletter that went out the week before school reopened and includes the explanations of the...
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What Will School Look Like Video
Leaders in Franklin, MA, created a video with welcome-back messages that walk students through the day, explain new behavior expectations and provide an example of what schools will look and feel like for students.
