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Arenas (Four-Hour Time Blocks)
Students spend the majority of their instructional time in an open class period working on their individual academic plans, receiving customized support as needed.
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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.
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Bronx Arena’s Master Schedule
By allowing more flexibility with time and physical space, Bronx Arena has created systems and structures to foster authentic relationships and inspire students in an open forum type model.
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Coordinating Student Supports with Facilitation Plans
Facilitation plans allow teachers to be proactive, rather than reactive, by identifying possible struggles ahead of time and implementing appropriate interventions to individualize the curriculum to each student’s needs.
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Problem of Practice: Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
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Take Advantage of Lost Learning Time
Virtual learning days may occur once a week, just a few times a semester, or exclusively when there is an emergency situation such as a “snow day.” On these days, teachers post class assignments online and students work on them at their own pace...
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Grade-Level and Personalized Supports with OER
Learn about WLA’s innovative OER model, where students take two math and ELA courses, alternating daily, to better support all students' needs.
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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.
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"Walking Time" to Support Standards Mastery
To help students recover unfinished learning time, teachers spend twenty-minute blocks teaching a specific standard to support student mastery.
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Ongoing Central Office Staff Support to Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools redeployed central office staff one day per week to dedicated school sites.
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Use of Outdoor Spaces for Instruction at Meriden Public Schools
Photo examples of how Meriden Public Schools leveraged outdoor spaces for in-person instruction during the pandemic.
