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Virtual Oral Assessment and Rubric
This is a question that eighth-grade students were assessed on for their virtual oral assessment. The rubric provides more in-depth details on how students were assessed.
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Virtual Oral Assessment Student Work Samples
These work samples were produced by students for a virtual oral math assessment. Students shared this work with their teacher virtually and explained their thinking orally to demonstrate mastery.
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Digital Notebook
This is an example of a digital notebook that a high school science teacher builds for their students every unit. Their students participate in a hybrid model in which they are both in-person and remote throughout the week. By having everything in...
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Daily Agendas
These fifth-grade daily agendas are clear, have an image to catch students’ attention, and are very detailed so that students know exactly what they should be doing and when. This is especially important when working in the virtual space, or when...
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Explanation of Wait Questions
This video gives additional information and framing around Wait Questions, along with two other types of questions you can use with remote synchronous instruction: Speed Questions and Verbal Questions. These same techniques can be used in person as...
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Cedar Rapids: Problem of Practice on Standards-Aligned Feedback
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) interviewed a range of teachers and students to identify opportunities to improve teaching and learning. The team heard a clear and consistent theme that stakeholders felt many students are not engaged...
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Kahoot Exit Ticket
This screenshot shows the final results from a geometry exit ticket administered on Kahoot.
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How Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Reduced Their Failure Rate by over 60%
This Getting Smart article tells more of the story behind MPUSD’s switch to mastery grading during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Piloting Mastery-Based Grading
In response to the high failure rates seen during the pandemic, Monterey Peninsula shifted its grading system to be more focused on standards mastery.
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Six-Year Planner from Gem Prep Online
Gem Prep Online offers this detailed planner for students to map out their courses over their six years (grades 7-12) at the school. This planner also displays the tracks high school students will need to take in order to complete either 18 college...
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Early College Credit
High schools can offer early college credit and dual enrollment to students to give them a head start on their post-secondary pathway.
