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Dallas ISD’s Educator Learner Profile Examples
A learner profile tells an individual’s academic and personal story over time and helps to establish a coaching relationship. It includes strengths, areas for growth, interests, aspirations, goals and how the individual learns best.
K-12 Blended Teaching
This free OER guidebook was developed to help teachers develop the core skills needed to teach in environments that blend online and in-person learning.
Learning Materials & Tools
Core Curriculum Supplemental Curriculum Digital Curriculum Assessments Software Selection Open Educational Resources Digital Citizenship Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
Measuring Personalizing Learning for Educators
Explore current research results, developed through a partnership between Lindsay Unified School District and The Learning Accelerator, used to understand the relationships between innovative professional learning offerings and learner outcomes.
Defining Clear Roles in Group Work
Developing team roles is a strategy that helps students take individual responsibility for a shared group goal.
Mastery Charter Schools: Including a Diverse Array of Voices
Mastery Charter Schools began a design process to improve teaching and learning with a team of academic executives. Important among the charter network’s mission and values is the weight they place on equity: “We disrupt systemic racism and the...
Cedar Rapids: Defining a Commitment to Equity and Resiliency
Cedar Rapids Community School District used its existing district vision for teaching and learning as an important anchor for its process to design near-term change. This helped the district advance progress on its current plans toward a goal that...
Mastery Charter Schools: Vision for Personalized, Blended, and Culturally Responsive Teaching
As it started a design process to improve teaching and learning, Mastery Charter Schools first described their ideal future for teaching and learning for students with a special focus on the most marginalized. They envisioned confident, independent...
Know Your District Reflection Activity
When designing change, teams start with an in-depth analysis of what is currently working well in the district and where the district’s primary pain points are. This template is designed to help districts explore the community’s history – including...
Reflect on Equity in Your Process Discussion Questions
These discussion questions accompany the Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Process strategy card.
IDEO Design Kit: Share Inspiring Stories
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. This protocol...