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Simultaneous Learning: How can I effectively work with in-person and remote students at the same time?
Grappling with creating effective learning experiences for students in your in-person classroom and students learning remotely at the same time? This guide shares specific strategies that help ensure student engagement, ownership, and connection.
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Where Real-Time Redesign Originated: Always Ready for Learning Strategy Lab
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Learning Accelerator, along with Bellwether Education Partners, created a new networked learning community focused on equity and resiliency called the Strategy Lab. The nine-month, pro bono, cohort-based...
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Learning Together at a Distance: A D11 Inquiry Invitation Project Resources
This website from D11 includes leveled guidebooks for elementary, middle, and high schools that outline planning tools and considerations for remotely leading students through the creation of inquiry projects.
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Portfolio-Based Grade Interviews
To support students’ metacognition as well as foster standards-based grading, teachers at Austin ISD piloted grade interviews with their students, allowing them to self-assess on a rubric and defend their grade through 1:1 conversation with their...
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Teacher-Selected, Domain-Specific PD Tracks
Teachers opt-in to a specific track of professional development based on their interest in a certain domain of Chicago Public Schools’ Personalized Learning Framework.
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Multi-Grade Level Classrooms
As a result of the pandemic and changing class sizes for students returning in-person, elementary schools shifted from single grade level classes to multi-grade level classes. This allowed creating even class sizes with frequently shifting numbers...
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District Distance Learning Progression
To support the shift to remote learning, the Personalized Learning Department at Dallas ISD created the Distance Learning Progression, which identifies the necessary system, leader, teacher, and student actions that are needed when operating in a...
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Navigator Dashboard & Areas of Concern
Metro Nashville Public Schools created a new district-wide point-person program to ensure every student was known, cared for, respected, and supported. This dashboard shows data to support high-level planning for student supports.
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Leveraging Community Partnerships To Build a City-Wide Plan
To make a return to in-person learning after school building closures, Meriden Public Schools partnered with local health officials and city departments to create safe, outdoor spaces for in-person teaching and learning.
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Leveraging Local Media to Communicate with Multilingual Families
Ector County Independent School District held a weekly press conference with every local media outlet to update the public on the status of schools during the pandemic and to share updates on teaching and learning practices. Every other week, they...
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Districtwide Learning Framework To Create Coherence With Greater School Autonomy
Hopkins Public Schools shifted decision-making to be more school-based and used the district learning framework to provide guidance and ensure coherence and continuity across the district.
