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Advice: Community Collaboration for School Innovation
Developed by the Colorado Department of Education, The Colorado Education Initiative, and The Learning Accelerator, the guide includes real-world case studies from Colorado school districts, video trainings, and templates.
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Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor Collegiate Academies consist of two public charter schools in Nashville, TN, serving students in grades 5-8. Their instructional model includes a blended and personalized math class, as well as a large emphasis on student social and emotional...
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Math Notebooks
Students at Valor use math notebooks to organize their math notes and progress through content.
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Self-Paced Progress through Playlists
Teachers at Valor have created a series of playlists built to review math standards and students work through them individually, at their own pace.
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Playlist Data Trackers
Valor students record completion of assignments on paper so teachers can quickly and easily monitor progress.
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Advisory Class
Students participate in a weekly class called Advisory where they set goals towards and work on personal growth.
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Customized Learner Pathways
Students use learner pathways to progress through content and instruction. These pathways are modified based on what the students has shown they already know or need to work on.
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Cisco Junior High School
Cisco Junior High School is a small district school in Cisco, TX, about two hours outside of Dallas, serving students in grades 6-8. Cisco ISD has scaled blended learning to 3rd-8th grade math and science, and is working toward scaling across the...
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Designing Cisco ISD's Student Experience Pillars
Cisco ISD designed four core components of the student experience that it hopes to achieve through blended learning.
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Demonstrating Mastery with Two Challenges and a Capstone
Each student is required to complete two challenges and one capstone project to demonstrate knowledge transfer and mastery of the course content.
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Cisco ISD’s Redesign Process
Cisco ISD has been highly intentional about how it is trying to improve teaching and learning for its students.
