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Highlander Institute Classroom Walkthrough Tool
This classroom walkthrough tool, from the Highlander Institute, links instructional behaviors seen at the teacher level to district actions. It is designed to help administrators understand their role in raising the ceiling for teacher practice.
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Guide: Highlander Institute: Classroom Walkthrough Tool
This classroom walkthrough tool, from the Highlander Institute, links instructional behaviors seen at the teacher level to district actions. It is designed to help administrators understand their role in raising the ceiling for teacher practice.
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Circle Walkthrough Tool at Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor's social-emotional learning model is based on their Compass, a human development model. Valor students participate in a weekly “Circle” exercise, during which they work to improve themselves, their community, and their relationships with...
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Cisco ISD Student Experience Walkthrough Tool - Design Pillars and Blended Strategies
Cisco uses this walkthrough tool, which is aligned with its four student experience design pillars, to reflect on current actions, how those align with previously determined goals, and next steps to be taken to meet those goals.
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Communal Practice Affirming Personal, Interpersonal, and Community Development
Valor students participate in a weekly “Circle” exercise, during which they work to improve themselves, their community, and their relationships with others.
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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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Balancing Blended Structures and Teacher Autonomy at Cisco
Cisco ISD has provides enough structure and guidance to help ensure quality and consistency across classrooms, but also allows teachers to have autonomy over the instructional approaches used in their classrooms.
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Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
Strategies
Driving EdTech Systems: Uxbridge Public Schools
Uxbridge Public Schools is located in western Massachusetts and participated in the EdTech Peer Learning Cohort facilitated by The Learning Accelerator (TLA) in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s...
Teaching Practices
Digital Use: How can leaders ensure students actively use technology as a core learning component?
This problem of practice offers school leaders three strategies to close the “digital use divide,” ensuring each student has the ability and opportunity to actively and powerfully use technology as a core component of their learning.
Artifacts
Artifact: Boston Green Academy’s Instructional Rounds
Boston Green Academy's November 2023 instructional rounds protocol outlines a structured approach to classroom observation and improvement. The document details the observation schedule, including dedicated times for classroom visits, feedback...
