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Strategies
Heterogeneous Teams
Students are assigned to heterogeneous teams for competitions and support.
Strategies
Team Work Tables
LPS Navigate uses tables rather than desks to allow better teaming, collaboration, and conferencing.
Strategies
Progress Monitoring Through Empower
Facilitators can see Learner work and data each day through the Empower dashboard (formerly called "Educate").
Artifacts
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...
Strategies
Power Standards
While Learners must master all standards, teachers identify "power standards" to help Learners focus on those they think are most important.
Strategies
Customized Playlists to Keep Learners on Track
Facilitators create playlists aligned with learning standards.
Strategies
Pleasant View's Integrated Teaching Teams
Special education and other support staff are fully integrated with teaching teams.
Strategies
Flexible Working Groups
Teachers group students based on need and provide targeted instruction.
Artifacts
Student Goal-Setting at Pleasant View
Students set goals at the beginning of every independent learning session. In the beginning, students struggled to set goals, so teachers helped students develop their goal-setting skills as a whole class.
Strategies
STAR Testing Data Use
Pleasant View Elementary leverages the STAR test in reading three times a year.
Artifacts
Standards Based Reporting at Pleasant View
The school uses standards-based report cards to align reporting to a mastery-based approach in the classroom.
