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Reimagining High School Grading
In response to high failure rates during remote learning in the pandemic, Renton School District surfaced solutions by inviting administrators, teachers, and students to rethink grading.
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Start Safe SEL Lessons
In response to the pandemic, Renton School District prioritized students’ health and wellbeing by embedding social-emotional learning in the first 15-minutes of class, a strategy called “Start Safe SEL.”
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Virtual Summer STEM Challenge
Meriden Public Schools provided a number of its 4th-grade students with the opportunity to engage in a virtual summer STEM enrichment program over one week.
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Rethinking Spaces and Opportunities for Learning, Especially the Arts
Meriden Public Schools leveraged partnerships and community spaces to create safe, outdoor learning spaces for the district’s classrooms during the pandemic.
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Focusing Instruction Through Standards Prioritization and Model Units
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District chose to focus teaching and learning on the most important content for each grade-level and subject-area.
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Community Partnerships for Career-Oriented Learning Work
Building external partnerships that encourage students to think about how to interact with external entities and design authentic projects aligned with future careers in mind.
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What I Need (WIN) Block
To provide their high school students with a flexible option to support individual interests and needs, Mendon-Upton Regional School District embedded a “What I Need” (WIN) block within their daily schedule to allow for choice in activity.
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Piloting Mastery-Based Grading
In response to the high failure rates seen during the pandemic, Monterey Peninsula shifted its grading system to be more focused on standards mastery.
Artifacts
Family STEAM Night Design Challenge Overview
This presentation was created by a teaching team at Monterey Peninsula Unified School District for a virtual Family STEAM night. In this session, teachers introduced all participants to key concepts in a design thinking process and then divided into...
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Family STEAM Nights
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District provided materials and held Family STEAM Nights to engage families over Zoom during the pandemic.
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Empathy Interviews and Co-Design Sessions
Monterey Peninsula took a design-thinking approach to identify challenges, listen to students, and co-design solutions.
