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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of the Physical Space
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how physical space is used differently at the school to accommodate and enable personalized learning. Transcript: Jill Tew: the space at Roots looks a little bit different from a...
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Daily, Weekly, and Long-Term Student Groupings
Roots groups students in multiple ways over the course of the year to differentiate instruction.
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Creation and Use of Micro-Standards
Roots has broken down grade-level standards to more discrete micro-standards.
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Flexible Daily Small Group Instruction
Teacher is able to see what every student is working on each day and can pull students working on similar learning objectives into groups as appropriate.
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Lindsay High School Primary Model Type: Individual Rotation
Lindsay Unified High School has adopted an individual rotation learning structure.
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Students' Choice in How to Use Personalized Learning Time at Lindsay
Brandy Quintero, a Lindsay teacher, explains how students sign up for Personalized Learning Time. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: Is the PLT. So kids get to sign up. We have a flex time manager and they get to go in and see what their teachers are...
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Student Choice Over How to Demonstrate Mastery at Lindsay
A student explains how he decided to choose and execute against his own "level four" mastery demonstration. Transcript: Marco Lopez: She gave us an opportunity for a Level Four, but a Level Four seemed kind of – I didn't really like it....
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Graduated Student Content Choice in Personalized Learning Plans
Teachers provide structure and support for students up front in their learning experience and gradually allow more autonomy over time.
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Teacher Supported Student Goal Setting
Students have one-on-one weekly meetings with their mentor teachers to articulate long and short term goals, and measure progress in meeting those goals.
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Authentic Projects
Teachers use the Summit PLP to create authentic projects that deepen student learning and allow for the development of cognitive skills and conceptual knowledge.
Spotlights & Case Studies
What Student Choice and Agency Actually Look Like
Snapshots from six schools using blended learning to put students in control. (Originally published in eSchoolNews on November 14, 2016)
