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Strategies
Creating Warm-Ups to Fill Skill Gaps
Students have a daily warm-up activity that addresses learning needs and applies cross-curricular skills in math.
Strategies
Group (Advisory Class)
Bronx Arena offers a weekly advisory class called “Group,” which creates time for students to build relationships and community-like structures within their class.
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Activity-Based Collaborative Learning Labs
Learning Labs are subject-focused, asynchronous courses that provide students with unique subject options and opportunities to collaborate with their peers.
Artifacts
Intersession Sparks Exploration and Lifelong Learning at The Nueva School
Nueva runs a PK-8 campus and a high school. Both these independent schools offer a six-day intersession for students to develop interdisciplinary exploration with real world experts, extending beyond the usual academic disciplines. Students choose...
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...
Strategies
Example: Learner-Led Classroom Management (IgnitED Research)
This video shares evidence from the learning sciences and a practitioner perspective around classroom management.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leadership That Moves You Forward, Part II: Engagement, Collaboration, and Teambuilding
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the most impactful actions site-level leadership can use to effectively lead schools through engagement, collaboration, and teambuilding.
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Interactive Visual Vocabulary
Students build interactive walls that include grammar tenses, content-based vocabulary, etc., that visualize the meaning and can be used as a tangible support during instruction as well as an additional way to build understanding.
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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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Muted Share-Aloud
To help combat Zoom fatigue, anxiety, and connectivity issues, allow students to be flexible about when they turn on cameras during synchronous lessons.
Strategies
Expectations Ensure Engagement
Regardless of whether students attend school in person or remotely, being explicit about roles and expectations in small groups is vital to engagement and the effective use of time. In remote settings, expectations may change, so educators must be...
