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Setting up a Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart
This article from the The Teacher Toolkit describes a Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart and how this structure can be used to identify prior knowledge, build in opportunities for inquiry, and support student learning and comprehension.
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Token Board Template
This template can be edited to support all grade levels by offering different prizes, illustrations, and other incentives for positive student behaviors.
Strategies
Accelerated Adoption of Centralized Instructional Materials Through Curriculum Blueprints
To support remote learning instruction, Austin ISD developed curriculum blueprints that offered targeted, district-vetted resources aligned to priority standards.
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Curriculum Blueprint Designer Best Practices
To support the roll-out and adoption of Austin ISD’s curriculum blueprints, the academic team created a simple one-page internal guide for designing the blueprints. This guide played a pivotal role in ensuring a baseline of quality as well as...
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“Blue Crew” Curriculum Blueprint Teams
To create curriculum blueprints for teachers to use for their remote instruction during the pandemic, Austin ISD’s academics team restructured their coaching model. By integrating coaches across subject-areas, they were able to more effectively and...
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Standards Prioritization Template
As Renton School District in Washington transitioned abruptly to remote learning in response to the pandemic, the district brought teachers together to collaboratively prioritize standards.
Strategies
Focusing Remote Learning Through Standards Prioritization
In response to the pandemic, Renton School District brought together collaborative teams of teachers who taught the same subject and grade level to identify priority standards and learning activities for focusing remote learning.
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Priority Standards & Measurement Topics for Cedar Rapids Middle Schools
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District chose to focus teaching and learning on the most important content for each grade-level and subject-area. They created this simple guide sharing the resulting priority standards and...
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Focusing Instruction Through Standards Prioritization and Model Units
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District chose to focus teaching and learning on the most important content for each grade-level and subject-area.
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Reimagining High School Grading at Renton Public Schools
This video of Bob Ettinger, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment at Renton School District, explains how the district, in response to high failure rates during remote learning, surfaced solutions by inviting administrators, teachers,...
Strategies
Districtwide Learning Framework To Create Coherence With Greater School Autonomy
Hopkins Public Schools shifted decision-making to be more school-based and used the district learning framework to provide guidance and ensure coherence and continuity across the district.
