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Building Routines, Systems, and Habits of Mind Before Personalizing Learning
How to cultivate the underlying skills that will help both teachers and students engage productively in a personalized learning environment.
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Problem of Practice: Build Internally vs. Buy Externally
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 country have managed this tension.
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Scaling Using a Cohort Model
How to ensure consistency of implementation across the system at a pace that works for all schools.
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Inspiring Teacher Engagement by Actively Sharing Their Work
How to inspire pioneering teachers to share their practices both within the network and also to others around the country.
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Tool: Learn Next Professional Learning Resources
Learn Next: A Toolbox for Educators to Transform Practice is a learning experience hub for educators seeking to build their capacity and gain the skills they need to ensure every one of their students has access to transformative learning. If we...
Teaching Practices
What are critical decision points when measuring to inform and improve teaching and learning practices?
Teachers and education leaders must make a series of critical decisions when beginning measurement to inform and improve teaching and learning practices. This guide provides an overview of three of these decisions and offers guidance on how to make...
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...
Teaching Practices
How can professional development support creating and implementing Open Educational Resources?
This guide provides an overview of implementing effective personalized professional development that supports curating and creating high-quality, rigorous OER curriculum, alongside concrete resources around competencies for educators.
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Distinctive Schools’ Personalized Learning Opportunities
Distinctive Schools designed and outlined multiple options for educators and schools to use to engage in personalized learning professional development and growth. Through these various opportunities, including fellowships, school visits, and design...
Teaching Practices
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
