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Financial Planning in the Time of COVID-19
Three concrete tools, contextualized in case studies that leaders can use as they finish the 2020-21 school year and begin financial planning for the 2021-22 school year for school systems and CMOs.
Teacher Discusses How She Modifies Her Time to Meet Students' Needs at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, shares how she prioritizes small-group instruction time given competing needs and demands within a personalized learning environment. Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: I divide based on what I think kids need the most. So,...
Teacher Discusses Ability to Monitor Progress in Real Time at LPS Richmond
Students select a "to-do" at the beginning of each session, which shows up on the teacher dashboard. Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how she monitors progress using this tool.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: Once they hit to-do, it puts it on my teacher...
Common Data Practices
Teachers implement standardized data practices, allowing ongoing collaboration and team data analysis in professional learning communities.
Four Hour Instructional Blocks at Bronx Arena
Bronx Arena's founder discusses why the school uses four hour blocks of time called "Arenas" as the main time for instruction.
Dynamically re-group based on formative assessment
This strategy, created by Unlocking Time, captures how schools utilize formative assessment data to re-group students based on the goals of the activity and the needs of students.
Provide All Students Access to College Classes
Explore how dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and early college can be made available to high school students who would benefit from college-level courses.
Requiring Cameras Only for 1:1 and Small-Group Time
This video describes the importance of allowing students to keep their cameras off at times during a lesson and then prompting students to turn their cameras back on during one-to-one meetings with the teacher and in small-group settings. These more...
Ector County SY 20-21 Academic Calendar
Ector County Independent School District’s SY20-21 academic calendar illustrates phase-in timelines.
Communication Resources for Schools at a Time of COVID-19 & Beyond
This resource from Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools and the Donovan Group provides template and guidance to promote honest, transparent, equitable, freely accessible and public health-informed communication. The hope is that this resource helps...
It’s Not a Matter of Time: Highlights from the 2011 Competency-Based Summit
From Anchorage, Alaska, to Orlando, Florida, and from Gray, Maine, to Yuma, Arizona, one hundred competency-based innovators gathered at the Competency-based Learning Summit in March 2011. Because pockets of innovation were operating in isolation,...