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THRIVE on Five Overview and Choice Boards
This communication sent from the district to families and students explained the launch of and thinking behind the virtual personalized learning days. The document contains links to guiding choice boards for projects in early childhood, elementary,...
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Schoolwide Weekly 1:1 Student Conferences
Weekly, one-to-one conferences supported by all staff members to aid in student development of academic skills, goal setting, and personal relationship building.
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Remote Cross-District Collaboration
Leveraging the shift to remote schooling, Austin ISD fostered cross-district collaboration between teachers and leaders from across the city.
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Building Self-Paced Student Learning with Google Slides
To support students and teachers in remote learning, the Personalized Learning Department at Dallas ISD provided teachers with targeted support on how to create self-paced lessons in Google Slides to engage students virtually.
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High-Dosage Tutoring
Metro Nashville Public Schools partnered with higher-education and community partners to provide one-on-one tutoring to students during the school day.
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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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Priority Standards & Measurement Topics for Cedar Rapids Middle Schools
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. They created this simple guide sharing the resulting priority standards and...
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Distance-Learning MOU With a Focus on Instructional Aims
Leaders at Monterey Peninsula Unified School Districts worked to negotiate an agreement with union leaders that clearly defined expectations for remote instruction in ways that tied to student-centered aims.
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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.
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Focusing Learning Through Standards Prioritization at Renton Public Schools
This video of Bob Ettinger, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment at Renton School District explains how the district brought together collaborative teams of teachers who taught the same subject and grade level to identify priority...
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Rethinking the Use of Outdoor and Community Spaces
With school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins Public Schools reimagined their use of outdoor and community spaces to return to in-person teaching and learning.
