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Personalized Professional Learning
Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how the district is shifting away from a one-size-fits-all for teacher professional development and towards personalized professional development tailored to each individual.
Ector County SY 20-21 Academic Calendar
Ector County Independent School District’s SY20-21 academic calendar illustrates phase-in timelines.
How Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Reduced Their Failure Rate by over 60%
This Getting Smart article tells more of the story behind MPUSD’s switch to mastery grading during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leveraging Multiple, Consistent Channels for Community Communications
Ector County Independent School DistrictSuperintendent Scott Muri shares how the district uses a variety of platforms to communicate to families including local television news outlets, social media, and Spanish radio.
Focusing Learning Through Standards Prioritization at Renton Public Schools
This video of Bob Ettinger, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment at Renton School District explains how the district brought together collaborative teams of teachers who taught the same subject and grade level to identify priority...
Back to School Kick-Off
In this video, students from Monterey Peninsula Unified School District came together to share their work launching a district-wide equity task force during the district’s 2020-2021 school year.
Equity Task Force Slide deck
This example slide deck by Monterey Peninsula Unified School District showcases how they ran a student-led, district-wide equity task force to create programs and initiatives to advance equity across the district, especially as the community...
Deepening Arts Enrichment Through Three-Week Focus Scheduling
Modifying arts enrichment schedules to minimize risk to enrichment teachers also leads to deeper engagement in the arts for students.
Shifting Towards Assessment-Aligned Trimester Reporting
With the switch to virtual learning, the School District of Cudahy identified a core set of power standards and shifted from quarters to trimesters to better align with their assessment cycle.
Episode 4: Renton School District's Approach to Staff and Student Wellness, Personalization, and Engagement
In this episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, Bob Ettinger of Renton School District in...
Sample Middle School Remote Learning Schedule
This is a sample schedule that middle schoolers at Cedar Rapids Community School District used for remote learning.