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Strategies
One-Way Streets
Students always move in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction when moving throughout the room.
Strategies
Green Lanyards
This strategy encourages students to collaborate by designating leaders in the classroom with green lanyards.
Strategies
3 Before Me
3 Before Me means that a students must ask three peers before asking the teacher for help
Strategies
Clamshell
Clamshell is when students close their laptops like clam shells (45 degrees) without closing them completely. It can be used to grab students attention and save time between transitions.
Artifacts
Senior Project Oral Presentation Rubric
Students are recorded giving feedback to their peers using the Oral Presentation Rubric as a guide. This allows students to better internalize the expectations of the oral presentation for themselves. The class spends a significant amount of time...
Strategies
Infinity Learning Maps
Teachers use the Infinity Learning Maps process with students to draw a map of a current learning situation that is challenging them. They include interactions between themselves, the people, tools, and places that support them in their learning....
Spotlights & Case Studies
Learning Science and Personalization
Using how your students learn to drive your practices and personalize for students through self-reflection, empowering your learners, and allowing for multiple paths to mastery.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Innovative Approaches to Mastery-Based Grading
Springpoint's paper, Inside Mastery Based High Schools: Profiles and Conversations, includes several innovative approaches to the challenge of mastery-based grading.
Strategies
Video Case Studies from the National Board
Using video as a tool for teacher reflection and professional learning can be powerful because it allows the teacher to see authentic instruction in action, identify key areas of improvement, and apply key strategies immediately...
Strategies
Mastery-based dashboards from MasteryTrack
MasteryTrack helps bring blended learning to life by creating intuitive mastery-based dashboards that students, teachers, principals, and parents can use. The unique architecture of the system enables it to be implemented very quickly and expanded...
Examples From The Field
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
