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Mask Culture Tool
How do I develop mask-wearing as a cultural norm in my classroom? Mask-wearing is an important and evidence-based practice for reducing the risks of COVID-19 infection associated with the return to socially distanced, in-person learning. Teachers...
Teaching Practices
How do I ensure students are engaged with each other and the content in a hybrid and/or remote learning environment?
Struggling with student engagement in your hybrid or remote classroom? This guide shares specific strategies that build student buy-in and participation in online or hybrid learning sessions.
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Pilot
When designing change, teams regularly step back to reflect on whether equity has been embedded in their process and to validate whether the planned change leads to more equitable results, especially before scaling any planned change.
Teaching Practices
Simultaneous Learning: How can I effectively work with in-person and remote students at the same time?
Grappling with creating effective learning experiences for students in your in-person classroom and students learning remotely at the same time? This guide shares specific strategies that help ensure student engagement, ownership, and connection.
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Portfolio-Based Grade Interviews
To support students’ metacognition as well as foster standards-based grading, teachers at Austin ISD piloted grade interviews with their students, allowing them to self-assess on a rubric and defend their grade through 1:1 conversation with their...
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By Design Project Guide
This is a sample project guide for a seven-week interdisciplinary project in ELA, science, social studies, and health. The guide outlines the big question and content area driving questions and explains for students and parents how progress towards...
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By Design Unit Plan
This unit plan includes what students are learning in each class throughout the course of the project. It also includes standards covered for each content area and examples of evidence of learning developed by students.
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Interdisciplinary Learning Through Teacher Teams
Teachers work together to create interdisciplinary, project-based experiences that span seven weeks and are organized around a common “big” inquiry question, with content-area driving questions and specific “concept” activities that are aligned to...
Strategies
Mastery-Based Math Learning Through “Cafés”
Liberty Public Schools math teachers piloted a mastery-based learning model to support student self-direction and personalized pacing. Elementary school teachers built lessons around a continuum of standards and allowed for students to attend...
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High-Dosage Tutoring
Metro Nashville Public Schools partnered with higher-education and community partners to provide one-on-one tutoring to students during the school day.
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Accelerating Student Learning with High-Dosage Tutoring
This research brief, created by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University offers an overview of the evidence-base and eight design principles for high-dosage tutoring programs.
