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Today’s One Thing for Teachers: Remote Family Engagement
This installment of Today’s One Thing addresses how to remotely engage families to support student development and outcomes.
Teaching Practices
How can I help students build a strong foundation for self-direction in remote learning?
Beginning to implement remote learning and not sure where to start? Start first by preparing students to engage and learn successfully at home. This guide explores three key elements needed for success: helping students become self-directed...
Strategies
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.
Strategies
Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders
When designing change, teams ensure that stakeholders – students, families, teachers, and classified staff – are the primary sources of input for what change is necessary and what change might look like through direct interviewing.
Strategies
Activity: Plan and Run a Pilot
When designing change, teams pilot their prototypes to assess strengths and weaknesses of a solution before implementing the solution across the district.
Strategies
Activity: Reflect on the Pilot
When designing change, teams use data from a pilot in order to determine whether the planned change should be scaled.
Strategies
Accelerated Adoption of Centralized Instructional Materials Through Curriculum Blueprints
To support remote learning instruction, Austin ISD developed curriculum blueprints that offered targeted, district-vetted resources aligned to priority standards.
Artifacts
Curriculum Blueprint Stakeholder Surveys
Following the rollout of curriculum blueprints for remote instruction, Austin ISD’s academic team sought feedback. The team surveyed teachers and students in October of 2020 and then again in December of 2020, helping to surface trends in usage, as...
Strategies
Student-Led Equity Task Force
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District created a student-led, district-wide equity task force to create programs and initiatives to advance equity across the district, especially as the community transitioned to distance learning.
Strategies
Empathy Interviews and Co-Design Sessions
Monterey Peninsula took a design-thinking approach to identify challenges, listen to students, and co-design solutions.
Strategies
Vision 2031: Adoption of District-Wide, 10-Year Vision for Innovation
Using feedback from multiple stakeholders, Hopkins Public Schools crafted a vision for what an innovative education would look like within the district by 2031, including the ideal portrait of a graduate.
