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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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Student Ownership of Grades at Lindsay
Teacher Brandy Quintero explains how she holds students acocuntable for keeping track of their progress and grades in Empower. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: You've probably heard some of those conversations today: "Ms. Quintero, you said I had...
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Using Data to Monitor Progress at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how Empower helps her manage her own class as well as see how other instructors are managing theirs. Transcript: Marla Earnest: Since we started with Empower – we've used Educate for years, and Educate is a...
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Overview of Empower at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how she uses the learning management system, Empower, to track student progress and provide support.Transcript: Marla Earnest: It's a progress monitoring system, and the way that it works is it allows me to see, as...
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Students' Choice in How to Use Personalized Learning Time at Lindsay
Brandy Quintero, a Lindsay teacher, explains how students sign up for Personalized Learning Time. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: Is the PLT. So kids get to sign up. We have a flex time manager and they get to go in and see what their teachers are...
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Choosing to Demonstrate Advanced Knowledge at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how students who achieve proficiency on a standard can choose to demonstrate deeper mastery.Transcript: Marla Earnest: The fours are always student choice. If they want to show that they have advanced knowledge of this...
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Student Choice Over How to Demonstrate Mastery at Lindsay
A student explains how he decided to choose and execute against his own "level four" mastery demonstration. Transcript: Marco Lopez: She gave us an opportunity for a Level Four, but a Level Four seemed kind of – I didn't really like it....
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Different Learning Choices Students Make at Lindsay
Brandy Quintero, a teacher at Lindsay, explains how students have choice over when to take an assessment as well as which content areas to tackle. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: So students can come in here. And these are all the standards that...
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Feedback Modifications for English Learners at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how she provides feedback within a performance based system for English language learners.Transcript: Marla Earnest: In ELD it looks a little bit different because when they score based on that rubric they're not going...
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Instructional Modifications for English Learners at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how she modifies learning activities to support English language learners.Transcript: Marla Earnest: It depends on the kid. It depends on what level they're working on. But let's take a newcomer, for example, a learner...
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Focusing on Most Important Standards at Lindsay
Brandy Quintero, a Lindsay teacher, discusses how the district identifies certain learning standards to prioritize over others. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: We don't have every Common Core standard in ninth grade. We've kind of focused on the...
