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Teacher Discusses Prep Time and Collaborative Planning at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, shares how structured protocols and tools support planning. Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: the form that we use right now is effective in guiding next steps for instruction. I'm hoping to make it even more detailed...
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Roots Executive Director Explains Calendar Use
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares more on how Google Calendar is used to direct student and teacher workflow throughout the school day.Transcript: Jon Hanover: basically, Google Calendar powers most of the logistics. All our scholars...
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Roots Executive Director Discusses Structure for Scheduling
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses the norms and routines used for scheduling student and teacher activities. Transcript: Jon Hanover:basically what we did is we split our content team as – for growth, there's four different...
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Teacher Discusses Use of Data Analysis Reflection Template at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, shares how she uses a data reflection template to inform her instructional planning.Transcript:Â Mackenzie Wagner: As it is now, it's basically a form that helps us figure out what to do next. It guides us in...
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Direct Instruction for Academic Content and Non-Cognitive Skills
Teachers use whole-group instruction to address skills needed for all students.
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Using Capacity Matrix as a Learning Agenda at Lindsay
Lindsay teacher Brandy Quintero explains how the district uses a "capacity matrix" to help students understand what they need to learn and the pace they need to learn it. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: When we started out with the capacity...
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How Pacing is Structured at Lindsay
Teacher Brandy Quintero explains how they use matrices built around the assumption of the average amount of time they expect a student need to complete at standard or skill.Transcript: Brandy Quintero: the pacing matrix is set up with the idea of...
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Pleasant View's Integrated Teaching Teams
Special education and other support staff are fully integrated with teaching teams.
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Summit Learning Platform
Summit Public Schools has created the Summit Learning Platform that is available to any teacher nationally and used by all schools in the Summit Learning Program. The platform does four things: Empowers students to be self-directed learners,...
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Teacher Supported Student Goal Setting
Students have one-on-one weekly meetings with their mentor teachers to articulate long and short term goals, and measure progress in meeting those goals.
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Shifting to self-directed learning: Setting a "default" mode
Blended and personalized learning models attempt to put students into greater control of their learning. Teachers need to build in explicit supports and structures to support students as they exercise greater choice and control. One structure we...
