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Daily Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Check-ins
Teachers set aside some time at the beginning of each class to engage in some quick SEL activities and better understand how students are feeling.
Family Welcome Calls
Reaching out to students’ families and welcoming them to the school community can help establish strong relationships and a successful foundation for the school year.
Peer Partners
Students are paired with a peer to set goals each morning and help each other overcome any challenges that may arise.
Weekly Learning Logs
Schools can create checkpoints at the end of each week with the use of learning logs, through which students share takeaways and reflections about what they learned.
Flexible Learning Pathways at VLACS
Students at VLACS can create their own “experiences”, in which they have the option of participating in independent learning, entrepreneurship, service-learning projects, internships, and travel based upon their interests and talents. This article...
Early College Credit
High schools can offer early college credit and dual enrollment to students to give them a head start on their post-secondary pathway.
Tackle Teacher Shortages with Online Learning
Julia Freeland Fisher uses this blog post to make the case for online learning as a solution to teacher shortages.
Student Edtech Survey
Cambridge Public Schools surveyed fifth graders about their experience with five specific edtech tools that all elementary schools in the district utilized. The survey aimed to measure students’ levels of engagement, satisfaction, and adoption to...
Activity: Three Essential Questions to Guide Improvement
The questions provided in this activity can be used to guide the design of a measurable solution. Use the table in this document to organize your thinking before jumping straight into building a pilot, prototype, or program.
Activity: Identify Your Stakeholders
This activity helps you to identify all of the stakeholders who could influence and/or might be impacted by the outcomes of a solution you are seeking to design.
Activity: Determine What Improvement Looks Like
Before designing a measurement plan, first think about what improvement might look like. This activity prompts you to consider what has changed, what has been improved, and how you would know.