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Virtual Oral Assessment
Virtual oral assessments provide a way for students to demonstrate what they know and for teachers to accurately gauge a student’s mastery level.
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Amtrak Learning Cars
Amtrak Learning Cars enable students to choose their remote learning environment by picking between engaging with their peers, getting additional teacher support, or working quietly by themselves.
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Battle Questions
This formative assessment strategy from BetterLesson enables students to demonstrate mastery in a fun and authentic way.
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Expectations Ensure Engagement
Regardless of whether students attend school in person or remotely, being explicit about roles and expectations in small groups is vital to engagement and the effective use of time. In remote settings, expectations may change, so educators must be...
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Remote Buddy Projects
Grouping in-person and remote students together for small groups and projects enables a stronger classroom culture and community between all learners, while also ensuring consistency.
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Families as Learning Partners
West Belden connects learning at school and home by engaging parents.
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CICS WB Master Schedule
CICS West Belden has developed a master schedule to maximize allocation of student and staff time. Core blocks are lengthened to allow for rotations and additional independent practice, conferencing, and instruction time. Lunch and enrichment have...
Examples From The Field
Roots Elementary
Roots Elementary was a K-2 charter school in Denver that used technology along with innovative staffing, curricular, and physical structures to provide a student-centered learning experience.
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ReNEW's Scheduling to Bridge Mastery-Based Needs and Time-Based Requirements
In order to accommodate individual and expected group-wide grade level pacing, the math class uses two distinct learning blocks daily.
Artifacts
Teacher Providing an Overview of One-on-One Conferencing at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, talks about the value of one-on-one student conferencingTranscript: Megan Miles: One thing that we do that I really love is that we have one-on-ones. So that's what one of the coaches was doing this morning. I don't know...
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Green Lanyards
This strategy encourages students to collaborate by designating leaders in the classroom with green lanyards.
