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Choosing to Demonstrate Advanced Knowledge at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how students who achieve proficiency on a standard can choose to demonstrate deeper mastery.Transcript: Marla Earnest: The fours are always student choice. If they want to show that they have advanced knowledge of this...
Off-Pace Students at Lindsay
A student shares how they think about being off or on "pace" in class, and how they and others stay on track. Transcript: Student: It's very apparent who's ahead and who's behind. We're all pretty open with that. Like I have some friends...
Exhibition Nights
Learners deliver public presentations to develop real-world skills while concurrently showing proficiency and mastery in certain academic learning objectives.
Focus on Building Cognitive Skills
Pleasant View Elementary teachers integrate cognitive skills into the curriculum.
Flexible Use of Space at Pleasant View
Students move freely throughout the classroom and extended learning space (hallways, central areas).
Student Choice of Work Partners
Students can work independently, with a partner, or in a group.
Multi-Pronged Student Support Structure
Students have a number of resources they can turn to for support.
Teacher Supported Student Goal Setting
Students have one-on-one weekly meetings with their mentor teachers to articulate long and short term goals, and measure progress in meeting those goals.
Students Showing Assessment Readiness at Pleasant View
When students feel they have mastered content, they request an assessment. PVES teachers developed a way to have students request without interrupting other one-on-one sessions.
Supporting Student-Initiated Assessment
Students who are ready for an assessment write their name and the title of the assessment on the board.
3 Before Me
3 Before Me means that a students must ask three peers before asking the teacher for help