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Teaching Practices
Build Internally vs. Buy Externally: How should we develop our talent and resource pipeline?
This guide unpacks the relative benefit of buying external resources and services versus building internal capacity and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Teaching Practices
Prioritize Need vs. Prioritize Readiness: How do we decide where to pilot and how to allocate resources to schools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of allocating resources based on the need versus the readiness of schools and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Teaching Practices
“Prix Fixe” vs. “A la Carte”: Should we scale a comprehensive model throughout our system or provide access to a series of independent, modular resources or tools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating a central “prix fixe” implementation model vs offering more flexible “a la carte” options and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Teacher Fellowship Opportunities
How to provide peer-supported opportunities for teachers to engage in personalized learning practice.
Strategies
Take Advantage of Lost Learning Time
Virtual learning days may occur once a week, just a few times a semester, or exclusively when there is an emergency situation such as a “snow day.” On these days, teachers post class assignments online and students work on them at their own pace...
Teaching Practices
What are key considerations when launching a researcher-practitioner partnership?
External partners can add critical capacity and expertise to help schools tackle measurement goals. However, successful research-practitioner relationships require intentional approaches. We offer three key considerations for launching a successful...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Mix It Up! The Benefits of Mixed-Ability Groups: IgnitED Research Insight
This installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on the benefits of mixed-ability student groups.
Strategies
Aligning on the “Why” through “The End of Average”
Aligning on the “why” of a model is crucial. Dallas ISD utilizes a book study of “The End of Average” to align on the rationale for a personalized model and apply its concepts to education and their instructional model.
Teaching Practices
Knowing the Community: How do leaders ensure new teachers understand and engage with the communities they serve?
When designing onboarding for new teachers (new to the school or to teaching in that school), it’s important to ensure they not only understand the school from an instructional standpoint but also get to know and understand the community they will...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leadership That Moves You Forward: Innovation, Vision, and Planning
To help understand how district and building-level administrators can successfully manage the change process when leading personalized learning initiatives, the Institute for Teaching and Leading (i4tl) conducted research looking at which actions by...
Strategies
Say Something Cards
Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.
