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Artifacts
Using Data to Identify Growth Areas for Staff at Cisco
Educators and administrators at Cisco communicate across grade levels to collaborate and use data to improve the educational experience for students.
Artifacts
Coordination between Advocate Counselors and Teachers at Bronx Arena
Educators at Bronx Arena discuss how teachers and advocate counselors coordinate throughout the day and week to ensure they're meeting students' needs.
Artifacts
Onboarding New Blended Teachers - Design Studio Agenda (January 2017)
Cisco educators new to blended learning attended a design studio hosted by the Raising Blended Learners initiative. This agenda shows the topics and activities covered during that studio.
Teaching Practices
How do I deepen differentiation and personalization within a station rotation model?
Currently implementing stations and thinking “now what?” This guide will give you resources around how adding more flexibility of movement, timing, strategic data use, and varied groupings will allow for greater differentiation, personalization, and...
Teaching Practices
How do I develop student ownership and accountability in a station rotation model?
Implementing a station rotation model requires intentional accountability systems to develop student ownership and ensure student success. This guide will go through strategies for developing student ownership through choice, habits, and student...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
Teaching Practices
How do I strategically instruct students with learning disabilities​​ in a personalized learning classroom?
How do you ensure that your instruction is supporting your students with learning disabilities effectively? Have you looked at ways to crosswalk students' IEPs with your current Learner Plans, engaged educators to collaborate around strategic...
Teaching Practices
How do I ensure rigor and high expectations for the whole student in blended/personalized learning classrooms?
Ensuring rigor and high expectations for students with learning disabilities means more than just making sure they are able to achieve the same content goals, but also supporting them to reach social and emotional goals. This guide explores ways to...
Teaching Practices
How can strategic staffing better serve students with learning disabilities?
This guide will give you concrete resources, research, and insights on three different ways to revisit your current staffing models to better serve students with learning disabilities, including reinventing the special education teacher role,...
Teaching Practices
Share Best Practices vs. Share Process/Failures: How might practitioners best learn from one another? What should we be cataloguing and sharing throughout the district?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of sharing “best practices” versus sharing our processes and failures, and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Building Blended Learning Leaders' Capacity
How to engage teachers and develop a community of blended learning leaders
