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How can I help students build a strong foundation for self-direction in remote learning?
Beginning to implement remote learning and not sure where to start? Start first by preparing students to engage and learn successfully at home. This guide explores three key elements needed for success: helping students become self-directed...
How can I integrate specific blended learning practices to meet individual needs during remote instruction?
Looking for ways to implement powerful instructional practices within remote instruction? This guide explores specific strategies that leverage varied modalities to effectively collect and use data, offer personalization points, and enable progress...
Virtual Notebooks
Acting as a type of interactive handout, virtual notebooks ensure all students have access to the content whenever and wherever they are learning – remotely, in person, or anywhere in between.
Online Agenda
Daily and weekly online agendas ensure all students – whether they receive instruction in person, remotely, or transition between both modalities – are on the same page and are set up for success.
Visual Virtual Classroom
To help ground students and remind them of being in the classroom, visually replicate your classroom and set it as your video background when teaching remotely or embed into your virtual lessons.
Muted Share-Aloud
To help combat Zoom fatigue, anxiety, and connectivity issues, allow students to be flexible about when they turn on cameras during synchronous lessons.
Active Spelling
This screencast shows how one teacher engages her students in an active spelling activity. In this video, the educator explains and models the strategy in action, sharing how she guides students through physical movements (e.g., jumping jacks) to...
Design Team Discussion Questions
These discussion questions support the process of building a diverse design team. For more information on this process, explore the strategy card: Activity: Build a Diverse Design Team.
Activity: Build a Diverse Design Team
When planning for change, teams make sure that they have a diverse, inclusive group of stakeholders involved in the design process.
Activity: Identity Reflection Through Noticing
When in a position to design change, team members reflect on what each individual brings to the process (talents, values, experiences, identities, motivations, biases) and what impact that might have on the design process.
Activity: Build a Shared Commitment to Change
When designing change, teams should start with a clear definition of and commitment to why change is necessary.