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Roots Executive Director Discussing Pilot Process for Software
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares how the team thinks about and executes the piloting and selecting of new technologies based upon identified needs. Transcript: Jon Hanover: Yeah, so our process pretty much looked like this, we'd...
Roots Executive Director Explains Calendar Use
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares more on how Google Calendar is used to direct student and teacher workflow throughout the school day.Transcript: Jon Hanover: basically, Google Calendar powers most of the logistics. All our scholars...
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 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...
Teacher Use of Master Calendars at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, talks about how teachers use Google Calendar to schedule time with students. Transcript: Samantha Gambino: all of us are able to just like, in Google Calendar – once every scholar has an e-mail address, like you...
Roots Executive Director Discussing the Benefit of Defaulting to Playlists
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses the benefit of a norm of defaulting to their independent learning tasks if not scheduled directly with a teacher during a learning block.Transcript: Jon Hanover: some of the early pioneers in...
Teacher Discusses Small Group Instruction at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains the scheduling and sizing of small groups.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: But the other part of the day, for me, is small groups. So, I – I'm scheduled groups of kids based on very specific needs, based on data that...
Teacher Providing an Overview of One-on-One Conferencing at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, talks about the value of one-on-one student conferencingTranscript: Megan Miles: One thing that we do that I really love is that we have one-on-ones. So that's what one of the coaches was doing this morning. I don't know...
One-on-One Conferencing
Habits of Success teachers have significant flexible time available for individual student conferencing.
Teacher Discusses Personalized Learning Experiences at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, explains how rotations through different activities are personalized to student need and choice. Transcript: Megan Miles: when they're in the grove, each kid has a different grove schedule. So they're the same...