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Teaching Practices
How can strategic staffing better serve students with learning disabilities?
This guide will give you concrete resources, research, and insights on three different ways to revisit your current staffing models to better serve students with learning disabilities, including reinventing the special education teacher role,...
Teaching Practices
Build Internally vs. Buy Externally: How should we develop our talent and resource pipeline?
This guide unpacks the relative benefit of buying external resources and services versus building internal capacity and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Teaching Practices
Prioritize Need vs. Prioritize Readiness: How do we decide where to pilot and how to allocate resources to schools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of allocating resources based on the need versus the readiness of schools and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Teaching Practices
“Prix Fixe” vs. “A la Carte”: Should we scale a comprehensive model throughout our system or provide access to a series of independent, modular resources or tools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating a central “prix fixe” implementation model vs offering more flexible “a la carte” options and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Provide All Students Access to College Classes
Explore how dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and early college can be made available to high school students who would benefit from college-level courses.
Teaching Practices
What are key considerations when launching a researcher-practitioner partnership?
External partners can add critical capacity and expertise to help schools tackle measurement goals. However, successful research-practitioner relationships require intentional approaches. We offer three key considerations for launching a successful...
Strategies
Resource Reallocation Options
Explore how Liberty Public Schools reallocated resources after saving funds through OER to support professional development and curriculum creation.
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.
Strategies
Virtual, Outcomes-Based Contract Tutoring
Ector County Independent School District is currently piloting outcomes-based tutoring with a virtual tutoring company at the district’s lowest-performing middle school. The district targeted 40 of its highest-need students that will be provided...
Strategies
School-Based Budget Decision Making with District-Facilitated Support
To support school leaders in building decision-making skills and autonomy around school-based budgeting, Hopkins Public Schools provided district-facilitated support to school leaders.
Examples From The Field
My Tech High
My Tech High is a personalized virtual program, administered by K-12 public schools across ten states. Students in the program are full-time public school students and can take all of their courses through the My Tech High platform tuition-free.
