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Heterogeneous Teams at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, uses a heterogeneous teaming strategy to support student learning. Transcript: Sophia Thomas: I decided to switch after my first team competition to heterogeneous groupings. How did I make that choice? In the first...
Peer Grading at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how peer grading is used as a strategy to deepen learning. Students use a rubric to grade their own and others' work. Transcript: Interviewer: Can you talk about grading? I noticed that students can grade their own,...
Creating Student Groups at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains her strategy for creating learning groups.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: When I do the group, I'm looking at a couple of things. I'm looking at the data on my teacher dashboard. I'm looking at the planner. I'm also...
Data Dashboard for Progress Monitoring
Teachers use a dashboard to monitor goal-setting and progress.
Example: Small Group Instruction at LPS Richmond
In this audio clip, you will hear how an LPS teacher works with a small group of students on annotating fractions.Transcript: Teacher (Sophia Thomas): Hi, ladies. Student: Hi. Student: Hello. Teacher: You know whenever you get back here, we do many...
Working Across Grade Levels
Learners in Lindsay High School English courses are able to simultaneously work through two "grade levels" of content in a single year.
Large Group Instruction at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how she uses whole group instruction to create efficiency when all students need support in a single are, like content review. Transcript: Marla Earnest: This time of year we're doing a lot of review, so our whole...
Pleasant View's Flexible Use of Space
Pleasant View Elementary uses both classroom and central common spaces to match learning to task and accommodate different needs.
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.
Shifting to self-directed learning: Setting a "default" mode
Blended and personalized learning models attempt to put students into greater control of their learning. Teachers need to build in explicit supports and structures to support students as they exercise greater choice and control. One structure we...
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