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Design Tech High's approach to intersession (2:42)
At Design Tech High, students take elective classes four times a year for two weeks at a time. (Note: The portion of the video referencing intersession begins at the 2:42 timestamp.)
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How Can You Create A Flex Block?
Adding a flexible block of time to your school schedule can help personalize learning for your students. But with an already busy schedule, how can you add another block of time? Won't students be missing important class time? What does a 'flex...
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Why Create A Flex Block?
Schools around the country have successfully personalized their students' learning by adding a flex block to their schedule. In what specific ways have students benefited? This video will explore five reasons – from real schools and educators - why...
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Essential Elements for Early College Expansion
Lessons from a Federal Investing in Innovation Grant, which brought early college to an additional 30,000 students in three districts over five years.
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The Personalized Learning Journey of Dallas ISD
This video, created by Dallas ISD, provides an overview of the district’s personalized learning journey. Explore a timeline of key events, including how the work got started, how their thinking about personalized learning evolved, how they expanded...
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What is Total Language Response?
This video explains what Total Language Response (TLR) is and how to use it to better support students who are learning English.
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What is Modeling?
The teacher models a skill or strategy for students using a gradual release method that follows the pattern: “I do, we do, you do.” The teacher uses a variety of instructional methods while thinking aloud and explicitly modeling a skill or strategy...
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Explanation of Wait Questions
This video gives additional information and framing around Wait Questions, along with two other types of questions you can use with remote synchronous instruction: Speed Questions and Verbal Questions. These same techniques can be used in person as...
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Requiring Cameras Only for 1:1 and Small-Group Time
This video describes the importance of allowing students to keep their cameras off at times during a lesson and then prompting students to turn their cameras back on during one-to-one meetings with the teacher and in small-group settings. These more...
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Active Spelling
This screencast shows how one teacher engages her students in an active spelling activity. In this video, the educator explains and models the strategy in action, sharing how she guides students through physical movements (e.g., jumping jacks) to...
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Pumpkin Launch Challenge with Remote Buddies
This video shows students in fourth and fifth grade working with their remote buddies on a pumpkin launch design challenge at Design 39 in Poway, CA.
