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Teaching Practices
Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience: How flexible should our district strategy be over time?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Using a Readiness Assessment to Efficiently Structure Roll-Out
How to determine sequencing for rolling out resources and supports to schools across the system.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Virtual Comparison Groups: Understanding What Worked, How, and Why
This Insight investigates the use of NWEA report data alongside a virtual comparison group to produce actionable insights when implementing blended learning.
Strategies
Tool: Learn Next Professional Learning Resources
Learn Next: A Toolbox for Educators to Transform Practice is a learning experience hub for educators seeking to build their capacity and gain the skills they need to ensure every one of their students has access to transformative learning. If we...
Spotlights & Case Studies
The Myth of Learning Styles: IgnitED Research Insight
This first installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on the evidence base which shows learning styles do not exist, and how this evidence can be applied in your classroom.
Teaching Practices
What are Open Educational Resources and how can I start using them?
Educators seeking to understand and use Open Educational Resources (OER) can use this guide to help them search for high-quality, rigorous, and standards-aligned OER.
Teaching Practices
Knowing the “Why": How do leaders communicate with new teachers around the purpose and vision of their innovative models?
Clearly communicating the “why” behind a school’s innovative model – not just the model itself – is an essential strategy for building new teachers’ abilities to understand and implement. This guide will explore various ways schools and districts...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leadership That Moves You Forward: Innovation, Vision, and Planning
To help understand how district and building-level administrators can successfully manage the change process when leading personalized learning initiatives, the Institute for Teaching and Leading (i4tl) conducted research looking at which actions by...
Artifacts
Weekly Checkpoint Document
This document is given to students weekly to ensure they know their expectations for the week, where to go for content support, and what content they will be covering throughout the week. Included throughout the document are definitions, graphics,...
Strategies
Activity: Visualize and Build a Prototype
When designing change, teams make sense of input and feedback from students, families, teachers, and classified staff to identify what changes are needed and what those changes might look like.
Strategies
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.
