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Strategies
Remote Choice Boards
Offering opportunities for choice can help to improve engagement. Create and use choice boards in your remote classroom by using Seesaw to help students gain autonomy and boost interest.
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Wait Questions
One way to ensure all students both engage and offer up answers when participating in synchronous remote instruction is by offering “Wait Questions.”
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Communicating with Hand Signals
Remote students can use hand signals to communicate their level of content mastery and to communicate their needs
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Remote Classroom Jobs
To help provide structure and encourage leadership and participation, create classroom jobs for your remote learning environment.
Teaching Practices
How do I ensure students are engaged with each other and the content in a hybrid and/or remote learning environment?
Struggling with student engagement in your hybrid or remote classroom? This guide shares specific strategies that build student buy-in and participation in online or hybrid learning sessions.
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Design Team Discussion Questions
These discussion questions support the process of building a diverse design team. For more information on this process, explore the strategy card: Activity: Build a Diverse Design Team.
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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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Mastery Charter Schools: Vision for Personalized, Blended, and Culturally Responsive Teaching
As it started a design process to improve teaching and learning, Mastery Charter Schools first described their ideal future for teaching and learning for students with a special focus on the most marginalized. They envisioned confident, independent...
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Monterey Peninsula: Vision for Mastery Learning at Scale
As it started a design process to improve teaching and learning, Monterey Peninsula first envisioned their ideal future classroom. The design team surfaced a compelling vision of mastery learning across every classroom in the district – one where...
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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.
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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.
