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Teaching Practices
How can I integrate specific blended learning practices to meet individual needs during remote instruction?
Looking for ways to implement powerful instructional practices within remote instruction? This guide explores specific strategies that leverage varied modalities to effectively collect and use data, offer personalization points, and enable progress...
Strategies
Activity: Identity Reflection Through Noticing
When in a position to design change, team members reflect on what each individual brings to the process (talents, values, experiences, identities, motivations, biases) and what impact that might have on the design process.
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Activity: Build a Shared Commitment to Change
When designing change, teams should start with a clear definition of and commitment to why change is necessary.
Artifacts
Mastery Charter Schools: Getting Inspired by Blended Learning and Digital Literacy
Mastery Charter Schools envisions a future of confident, independent learners supported by personalized, blended, and culturally responsive teaching and authentic relationships with adults. To achieve this vision, Mastery knew it would have to...
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Mastery Charter Schools: Connecting Empathy Interviews and Blended Learning
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. Themes from...
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Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
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
Activity: Define a Problem of Practice
When designing change, teams define a problem to tackle, asking “How might we?” as a way to start to imagine a more equitable, resilient future of teaching and learning.
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Activity: Brainstorm Solutions and Refine Ideas
When designing change, teams brainstorm a wide range of potential ways to address their problem related to equity and resiliency in teaching and learning.
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Solution
When designing change, teams should regularly pause to reflect on whether equity has been embedded in their process and whether their planned change will lead to more equitable outcomes.
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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.
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Pilot
When designing change, teams regularly step back to reflect on whether equity has been embedded in their process and to validate whether the planned change leads to more equitable results, especially before scaling any planned change.
