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Teacher Perspective: Working on Multiple Grade Levels at Lindsay
Teacher Brandy Quintero explains how advanced students can work at a higher level in a competency-based learning system. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: So at the beginning of the year, you know, when you first get to start knowing...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Shifting to self-directed learning: Setting a "default" mode
Blended and personalized learning models attempt to put students into greater control of their learning. Teachers need to build in explicit supports and structures to support students as they exercise greater choice and control. One structure we...
Strategies
Inclusion Approach to Special Education
Special education teachers push into general education classrooms, pulling various small groups to lead data-based interventions.
Strategies
Student and Teacher Progress Tracking through Tracker Sheets
Students use daily tracker sheets to set goals, monitor their progress and reflect on their learning. Tracker sheets provide rich information to inform student/teacher conferences.
Strategies
Tool: Friday Institute's Leadership in Blended Learning Program
With support from TLA, the Friday Institute has created a low-cost, cohort-based professional development program for school leaders.
Strategies
Tool: Creating a Statewide Culture of Innovation
TLA and 2Revolutions developed a framework, assessment tool, and Innovation Scorecard for organizational leaders at the state level as they work to create a Culture of Innovation.
Artifacts
Texas Raising Blended Learners Initiative
Raise Your Hand Texas founded the Raising Blended Learners Initiative as a $2.5 million grant initiative that deliberately builds statewide expertise and capacity for blended learning.
Artifacts
Massachusetts Opportunity to Lead: Unleashing Innovation
Commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, The New Opportunity to Lead provides a rationale and design for a statewide innovation capacity-building initiative comprised of three ideas: Investing in a new technology bond,...
Strategies
Advice: Support and Leverage for Early Adopters
Innovation in education does not always take hold when mandated solely from the “top down.” Early adopters at the school and district level can show the way for others across the state, and they provide authentic, real-world experience from which to...
Examples From The Field
Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor Collegiate Academies consist of two public charter schools in Nashville, TN, serving students in grades 5-8. Their instructional model includes a blended and personalized math class, as well as a large emphasis on student social and emotional...
