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Creating Student Groups Using Google Calendar at Roots
At Roots Elementary, teachers schedule small group instruction with students directly in Google Calendar.
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Roots Executive Director Discussing the Benefit of Defaulting to Playlists
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses the benefit of a norm of defaulting to their independent learning tasks if not scheduled directly with a teacher during a learning block.Transcript: Jon Hanover: some of the early pioneers in...
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Defaulting to Individual Playlists
In order to keep young students on-task and focused, scholars learn to follow their independent learning time calendar tasks when not told otherwise.
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6-8 Week Learning Groups
Students are assigned to learning groups for a 6-8 week cycle in addition to shorter term small groups.
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Teacher Discusses Flexibility in Groupings at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, shares how small group composition is influenced both by academic and behavioral needs.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: it's interesting because they're very – they're not static. We made a change yesterday based on a behavioral...
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Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groups
Students are assigned to both homogeneous and heterogeneous groups to support learning.
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Teacher Discusses Leveraging Student Feedback at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains how teachers are able to elicit and integrate student feedback to give them more choice and ownership over learning plans.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: I think right now, I think as the technology is new, and as our...
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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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Co-creation of schedules
Root's seeks input from students on how they spend their learning time through one-on-one conferences.
