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Texas Tech on the Forefront of Preparing Teachers in Blended Learning
Blog post describing the partnership between Texas Tech, the Raising Blended Learners Initiative, and Dallas ISD.
OER Passport
This tool from Mountain Heights Academy is leveraged to ensure that all faculty engage in production, use, reuse, create, publish and share content. At the beginning of the year, every teacher receives their own tangible passport, enabling them to...
Utilizing PLCs to Support New Teachers
Slides 8-13 in this deck provide an overview of professional learning communities (PLCs) and how they are introduced to new teachers in Natick Public Schools. The slides cover what PLCs are, as well as the core values, key priorities, and questions...
Menu of Supports (School-Facing Support)
This slide deck, developed by Dallas ISD, illustrates the variety of supports available for schools in their first year of personalized learning. The deck also provides an overview of the different types of support available and how schools can...
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.
Chicago Public Schools Educator Learner Profile
Chicago Public Schools’ teacher learner profile allows educators to share who they are as an individual and as a professional. Coaches utilize this tool to better understand educators and to tailor learning opportunities and supports based on...
Dallas ISD's Partnering to Personalize
Dallas ISD’s Personalized Learning Team presented at iNACOL in 2017 using these slides, sharing how they partner with higher education institutions, schools, philanthropic organizations, and businesses in order to grow and improve their personalized...
Tool: Blended Teaching Assessment Tool
As blended teaching becomes more prevalent throughout the country, leaders in the field are looking for how to measure and assess quality blended teaching skills. As part of her TLA Measurement Fellowship, Emily Pulham distilled the information...
Virtual Weekly Teaching and Learning Workshops
Chicago Public Schools’ Department of Personalized Learning led weekly virtual workshops to help teachers personalize and adapt practices in hybrid and remote settings.
Mastery-Based Math Learning Through “Cafés”
Liberty Public Schools math teachers piloted a mastery-based learning model to support student self-direction and personalized pacing. Elementary school teachers built lessons around a continuum of standards and allowed for students to attend...
Virtual Coaching for Teachers
To support teacher growth, the Ector County Independent School District launched virtual coaching for teachers. Most coaches are not located within the district, so remote coaching was needed to provide the volume of coaching needed. Coaches watch...