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Balancing Student Choice and Needs with Playlists
Playlists are used to organize learning activities, enabling student choice and agency.
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Arenas (Four-Hour Time Blocks)
Students spend the majority of their instructional time in an open class period working on their individual academic plans, receiving customized support as needed.
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Providing Productivity Guidance through Tasks and a Banking System
While every student may be working on something different in class, each is expected to complete five tasks per day. This helps ensure students are being productive and identify early interventions when they are not.
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Learn Next: Learner Agency Resources
These resources were co-designed through a partnership between the learner agency experts at Jobs for the Future and 2Revolutions
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Designing Student-Informed Modules Using OER
Learn how Concourse Village Elementary School was able to adopt new OER curriculum to support its students and create its own social studies and literacy interdisciplinary OER modules.
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Tools to Modify OER and Maintain Rigor
One tension that exists for instructional materials providers is that they want to offer educators the ability to modify materials to meet students’ needs but do not want these modifications to reduce their alignment to standards or rigor.
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Remote Learning: Planning for Improvement
This resource is intended to help school and district leaders understand, reflect upon, and prioritize actions to improve student learning in remote settings. This discussion guide highlights specific school-based “Power Moves,” examples and...
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Defining Clear Roles in Group Work
Developing team roles is a strategy that helps students take individual responsibility for a shared group goal.
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Monterey Peninsula: Getting Inspired by Relationships Between Students and Adults
Through their redesign work, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District has explored deepening personal relationships and students’ feelings of connection within the school community. The design team knew that such personal relationships and feeling...
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Monterey Peninsula: Students and Teachers Co-Design Process Pilot
Monterey Peninsula wanted to solve a problem in their district: “How might we increase flexibility and personalization to build a sense of belonging and connection within the context of our labor and policy constraints?” After seeking stakeholder...
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Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
Article from Getting Smart outlining how to build Success Coaching in schools and why it is needed to support learners on all fronts.
