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Report: Building Community and Capacity: The Effects of the First Year of LUSD’s Teacher Residency Program
Teacher residency programs have the potential to address two systems-level challenges exacerbated by the pandemic: educator shortages and training for novice educators. Given current teacher shortages and the need to prepare educators for the...
Strategies
Advice: Ensure Sufficient Connectivity
Understand recommended broadband capacity targets for your district
Teaching Practices
Digital Design: How can leaders build educator capacity to leverage technology as a core component of instruction?
This Problem of Practice offers school leaders three approaches to ensure all teachers have access to the resources, support, and capacity needed to effectively integrate technology into their classrooms.
Strategies
Trailblazer Next Generation Learning Coordinator
The Next Generation Learning Coordinator is a district employee who supports innovation in schools across the district through professional development, coaching, communication support, and change management.
Strategies
Example: Fulton County: Vanguard Teachers Program
This program overview and blog post from Getting Smart illustrates how Fulton County built out their capacity in a strategic manner around blended learning by building a Vanguard Team, comprised of educators who have mastered the art of technology...
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Cisco ISD Student Experience Walkthrough Tool - Design Pillars and Blended Strategies
Cisco uses this walkthrough tool, which is aligned with its four student experience design pillars, to reflect on current actions, how those align with previously determined goals, and next steps to be taken to meet those goals.
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Onboarding New Blended Teachers - Design Studio Agenda (January 2017)
Cisco educators new to blended learning attended a design studio hosted by the Raising Blended Learners initiative. This agenda shows the topics and activities covered during that studio.
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Student Agency Design Studio Agenda (May 2017)
6th-8th grade math and science teachers at Cisco attended a design studio as part of the Raising Blended Learners initiative. The studio focused on student agency and the agenda highlights key topics, questions, and activities addressed throughout...
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Open School Development and Operations Resources
Washington Leadership Academy focuses on the importance of always growing, staying open to feedback, and trying to improve the world. It has committed to sharing its operation resources openly. In this guide, you will find resources around: School...
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Laying the Foundation for Competency Education: A Policy Guide for the Next Generation Educator Workforce
This report provides an overview of how competency-based learning can provide the skills and training necessary to develop a next generation workforce. The paper discusses the new skills that educators will need, policy shifts that will need to...
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Eng 9B - Pacing Guide
This is a sample 9th grade English capacity matrix and pacing guide for a Unit on Romeo and Juliet.
