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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Providing an Overview of Software Decision-Making at Roots
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how the leadership team structures and approaches software decision-making. Transcript: Jill Tew: the leadership team – so Eve, John, and myself – sat down late last week, actually,...
Teacher Explains Calendar Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, how she uses Google Calendar to support daily instruction and student workflow.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: the way that we know where to be and what to do is – everything is run off of Google Calendars for us. So...
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Explains Modifying Tech Tools for Students
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, discussed early modification needs and how those needs will change as students develop more skills and grow.Transcript: Jill Tew: A lot of what we did this year was to make it easy for...
Teacher Explains Student iPads Use for Scheduling at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, shares how iPads are introduced to and used by students throughout the school day and year.Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: In the beginning, it was really tricky. The iPads are obviously something that are totally new...
Roots Student View of Academic Event in Calendar
This is a screenshot of an individual event for a student at Roots. The color tells the student where they need to be, a picture of the teacher tells them who they should be working with, and the activity tells them what they need to be doing....
Student-Friendly Schedules
Roots created a simple app to modify student calendars so they are easy to read.
Roots Executive Director Discusses Structure for Scheduling
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses the norms and routines used for scheduling student and teacher activities. Transcript: Jon Hanover:basically what we did is we split our content team as – for growth, there's four different...
Roots' Assigned Staff to Lead Independent Work Time
Roots' Habit of Success teachers lead independent work time, which allows content area teachers to focus on working directly with students.
6-8 Week Learning Groups
Students are assigned to learning groups for a 6-8 week cycle in addition to shorter term small groups.
Teacher Discusses Flexibility in Groupings at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, shares how small group composition is influenced both by academic and behavioral needs.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: it's interesting because they're very – they're not static. We made a change yesterday based on a behavioral...