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Accountability Partners
Students are paired together to share goals, check-in on each other's work and provide mutual support.
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Change Management Strategies
Education leaders should consider frameworks for addressing change management in their school systems to support their initiatives.
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Guide: Transformative Budgeting for Digital Learning
This guide intended to assist districts in rethinking traditional budgetary approaches in order to find possible ways to fund technology initiatives by repurposing existing funding sources. The paper offers step-by-step advice through investigation,...
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Advice: Vision First, Facilities Second
Many educators are redesigning their physical spaces alongside their instructional approaches. New physical space designs should be driven, first and foremost, by visions for blended and personalized learning.
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Guide: Personalized PD at Dallas ISD
This Personalized Learning Coaching and Development Tool (PL Toolbox) from Dallas ISD maps out clear competency strands, identifies ways to show mastery in practice, and observational guides to drive meaningful reflection and discussions. This tool...
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Guide: Highlander Institute: Classroom Walkthrough Tool
This classroom walkthrough tool, from the Highlander Institute, links instructional behaviors seen at the teacher level to district actions. It is designed to help administrators understand their role in raising the ceiling for teacher practice.
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Highlander Institute Fuse Fellowship Training Overview
As part of its statewide Fuse RI program, the Highlander Institute trained and deployed a team of teacher fellows to support district implementation of blended learning.
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Multiple Methods of Student Groupings
Student at Valor can be grouped in a variety of ways, which may evolve over time based on need.
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Looking at Student Work Protocol
Valor has a structured process for reviewing student work samples, which they use to identify common challenges related to assignments and their relevant content.
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A Self-Directed, Competency-Based Approach to Social-Emotional Learning
Valor students work through the Compass Phase System in a self-paced, competency-based approach spanning from grades 5 through 12.
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Communal Practice Affirming Personal, Interpersonal, and Community Development
Valor students participate in a weekly “Circle” exercise, during which they work to improve themselves, their community, and their relationships with others.
