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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses Use of Google Apps
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the importance of Google Apps to Root's instructional and operational model. Transcript: Jill Tew: I think Google and its kind of skeleton will always make sense for us as kind of the...
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Roots Executive Director Discussing Pilot Process for Software
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares how the team thinks about and executes the piloting and selecting of new technologies based upon identified needs. Transcript: Jon Hanover: Yeah, so our process pretty much looked like this, we'd...
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Teacher Explains Calendar Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, how she uses Google Calendar to support daily instruction and student workflow.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: the way that we know where to be and what to do is – everything is run off of Google Calendars for us. So...
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Teacher Discusses Schedule Coordination at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, discusses the structure of her school day Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: Our day is broken up into a lot of different parts, and so it's basically a matter of organizing those different parts of the day in your...
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Roots Teacher Discusses STEP Testing and Informal Data Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, discusses how the team uses STEP testing to inform literacy instruction.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: So, a lot of our data is done through – we do what's called step testing, which is a literacy test that does...
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Teacher Discusses Use of Data Analysis Reflection Template at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, shares how she uses a data reflection template to inform her instructional planning.Transcript:Â Mackenzie Wagner: As it is now, it's basically a form that helps us figure out what to do next. It guides us in...
Strategies
Team Work Tables
LPS Navigate uses tables rather than desks to allow better teaming, collaboration, and conferencing.
Strategies
Periodic Structured Data Review
LPS Navigate Math teachers have multiple data review structures.
Strategies
Structures for Supporting Self-Directed Learning
Teachers created clear norms and supports to help students be effective self-directed learners.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Shifting to self-directed learning: Setting a "default" mode
Blended and personalized learning models attempt to put students into greater control of their learning. Teachers need to build in explicit supports and structures to support students as they exercise greater choice and control. One structure we...
