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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of Creating Tech Tools
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how the school has worked to create and develop custom applications to support integrations and student and teacher workflow. Transcript: Jill Tew: the first thing that we did this...
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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses the "Why" and the "How" of Tech Tool Development
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the team's philosophy for understanding technology needs, doing diligence on existing products, and developing tools to fill gaps. Transcript: Jill Tew: Whole process, we were thinking...
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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses Use of Google Apps
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the importance of Google Apps to Root's instructional and operational model. Transcript: Jill Tew: I think Google and its kind of skeleton will always make sense for us as kind of the...
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Roots' Supplements to Google Apps for Education
Roots built multiple simple tools to integrate with Google Apps to support scheduling, activity assignment, and data analysis.
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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation On Needing an Instructional Purpose in Selecting Software
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how understanding of instructional needs drive technology adoption. Transcript: Jill Tew: What we try to do and what I’m very kind of vocal about is never just adopting an app because...
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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 Use of Master Calendars at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, talks about how teachers use Google Calendar to schedule time with students. Transcript: Samantha Gambino: all of us are able to just like, in Google Calendar – once every scholar has an e-mail address, like you...
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Roots' Flexible Use of Time
Roots' daily calendar is very flexible, which allows teachers to meet with students on a frequent and as-needed basis.
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Content Teacher Discusses Benefits of Habits of Success Teachers at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, is a content-area teacher. She explains the value of having Habits of Success teaching peers to support the content-area work. Transcript: Samantha Gambino: they're having one-on-one conversations about like,...
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Teacher Discusses Personalized Learning Experiences at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, explains how rotations through different activities are personalized to student need and choice. Transcript: Megan Miles: when they're in the grove, each kid has a different grove schedule. So they're the same...
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Teacher Discusses Student Choice at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, explains how choice is integrated into the student day, particularly during independent learning time.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: say okay, we have these four authors. Let's all choose which author we all as a...
