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Teaching Practices
Remote-Friendly Assessments: How can I build assessments that are accessible for students in remote and hybrid learning environments?
Looking for ways to assess a student’s mastery of new learning, no matter their physical location? This guide shares specific strategies to ensure students are engaging with and mastering content, whether they are working remotely or inside the...
Strategies
Building Self-Paced Student Learning with Google Slides
To support students and teachers in remote learning, the Personalized Learning Department at Dallas ISD provided teachers with targeted support on how to create self-paced lessons in Google Slides to engage students virtually.
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Virtual Coaching for Teachers
To support teacher growth, the Ector County Independent School District launched virtual coaching for teachers. Most coaches are not located within the district, so remote coaching was needed to provide the volume of coaching needed. Coaches watch...
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Empathy Interviews and Co-Design Sessions
Monterey Peninsula took a design-thinking approach to identify challenges, listen to students, and co-design solutions.
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Inquiry-Based Outdoor Immersion Program
Two second-grade teachers at Eisenhower Elementary of Hopkins Public Schools created a pilot outdoor immersion classroom, leveraging the outdoors to drive inquiry-based learning.
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Rethinking the Use of Outdoor and Community Spaces
With school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins Public Schools reimagined their use of outdoor and community spaces to return to in-person teaching and learning.
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Learning Studios
Learning studios offer a different classroom design in which students collaborate in groups and instructors serve as facilitators.
Teaching Practices
Virtual Learning: How can I engage families remotely to connect, collaborate, and support them as partners for students?
Strong relationships and communication with families (including parents, guardians, and other adults at home) is a vital and often under-utilized force for students' ongoing success, especially when learning occurs in a virtual setting. Explore this...
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What classroom practices can be implemented to address unfinished learning?
At the classroom level, to address unfinished learning, educators need to implement strategies that accelerate individual learners’ growth and progress, adapt to their differences, and build on their academic, social, and physical strengths. This...
Examples From The Field
Map Academy
Map Academy is an alternative public high school in MA that offers students a different path to graduation than traditional high schools.
Examples From The Field
Crossroads FLEX High School
Crossroads FLEX High School serves students in grades 9-12 whose outside interests and activities require considerable time during typical school hours. The school has a flexible hybrid schedule that allows students to engage in their outside...
