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Teacher Team Structures
Learn about Liberty Public Schools' three-tiered teacher team structure designed to support curriculum development across content areas and grades.
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Digital Promise Challenge Map
This Challenge Map from Digital Promise allows users to explore big challenges in education – from kindergarten readiness to school redesign - and how they play out in different contexts. The tool also connects users with ideas and resources from...
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Distinctive Schools’ Personalized Learning Opportunities
Distinctive Schools designed and outlined multiple options for educators and schools to use to engage in personalized learning professional development and growth. Through these various opportunities, including fellowships, school visits, and design...
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Dallas ISD Personalized Learning Offerings – Calendar at-a-Glance
Dallas ISD designs a variety of ongoing opportunities for educators and schools to access support in implementation throughout the year. This calendar at-a-glance gives an overview of opportunities throughout the year, including professional...
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Chicago Public Schools’ Sullivan School Blueprint
As schools make the shift to personalized learning, Chicago Public Schools works with school leaders to design a school blueprint – a comprehensive document laying out the vision, mission, background, strategy, and implementation plan for achieving...
Teaching Practices
Knowing the “Why": How do leaders communicate with new teachers around the purpose and vision of their innovative models?
Clearly communicating the “why” behind a school’s innovative model – not just the model itself – is an essential strategy for building new teachers’ abilities to understand and implement. This guide will explore various ways schools and districts...
Teaching Practices
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
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Design Team Noticing Activity for Identity Reflection
A template for reflecting on your design team’s values, identities, feelings, and biases, as part of Activity: Identity Reflection Through Noticing. The activity is a digital adaptation of work by Stanford d.school.
Strategies
Activity: District Self-Assessment
When designing change, teams start with an in-depth analysis of the history of their school(s), what is currently working well in the district, and where the district’s primary pain points are.
Strategies
Activity: Get Inspired! Explore Innovative Schools
When designing change, teams look externally to glean best practices from other districts and schools that have implemented strategies to increase equity and resiliency in teaching and learning.
Strategies
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.
