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Roots Habits of Success Standards and Progress
Roots Habits of Success Standards map out the expectations of students outside of content mastery. Teachers use this sheet to review student progress on all standards and then review it directly with the student in progress monitoring. Roots...
Roots' Leadership Support for Academic and Tech Innovation
The Roots' executive team provides support for innovation in order to focus teachers on execution with students.
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of Creating Tech Tools
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how the school has worked to create and develop custom applications to support integrations and student and teacher workflow. Transcript: Jill Tew: the first thing that we did this...
6-8 Week Learning Groups
Students are assigned to learning groups for a 6-8 week cycle in addition to shorter term small groups.
Roots Executive Director Provides an Overview of Micro-Standards
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, provides an overview of how the school has broken Common Core State Standards into micro-objectives to deeply diagnose needs as well as understand student mastery progressions. Transcript: Jon...
Teacher Discusses Students Moving Beyond Grade Level at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains the school's philosophy for letting students move with mastery across grade levels rather than seat-time.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: We move them to the next grade. So ST Math doesn't necessarily recommend that,...
Class Competitions
To keep students on pace, teachers create a class competition that runs daily and by “unit.”
Pre-Unit Diagnostics
Students take a diagnostic at the beginning of each unit to get a sense of which learning objectives they already know and which they need to work on.
Benefits of Student-Initiated Assessments at LPS
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how students at LPS are able to choose when they take a mastery assessment.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: The biggest thing is they choose when they take their summative assessment. With this model, every single kid is...
Immediate Results to Teachers
Once an assessment is completed, students input scores directly into the dashboard, which allows the teacher to review progress and make decisions immediately.
Student Choice at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains the parameters of choice available to students, which include what to work on, in which order, at what pace, and when to attempt to demonstrate mastery.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: They choose what they're learning,...