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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.
Cedar Rapids: Student Reflection and Goal-Setting Pilot
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) wanted to solve a problem in their district: “How might we provide relevant, standards-aligned feedback to students so that every student reaches mastery?” After seeking stakeholder input and...
Video Pairing
When students are watching a video, adding activities like interactive handouts, reflection questions, and checks for understanding makes the learning more active.
Digital Demonstrations
Students can demonstrate their learning by sharing work products remotely, like videos, documents, and pictures, where they illustrate or apply what they have learned easily – regardless of their physical location.
Portfolio-Based Grade Interviews
To support students’ metacognition as well as foster standards-based grading, teachers at Austin ISD piloted grade interviews with their students, allowing them to self-assess on a rubric and defend their grade through 1:1 conversation with their...
Grade Interviews Pilot Process
To support teachers in their rollout of the grade interview strategy, Austin ISD’s Strategy Lab team created an initial presentation about the pilot process, explaining the reasoning behind the pilot and soliciting input from teachers on how to...
Field Guide: Grade Interviews
To support teachers in their rollout of the grade interview strategy, Austin ISD’s Strategy Lab team created a simple one-pager with the essential information required. The “Field Guide” includes teacher and student actions as well as checklists for...
By Design Project Guide
This is a sample project guide for a seven-week interdisciplinary project in ELA, science, social studies, and health. The guide outlines the big question and content area driving questions and explains for students and parents how progress towards...
By Design Unit Plan
This unit plan includes what students are learning in each class throughout the course of the project. It also includes standards covered for each content area and examples of evidence of learning developed by students.
By Design Vision
This website shows the vision of the By Design program and its key outcomes and components.
Interdisciplinary Learning Through Teacher Teams
Teachers work together to create interdisciplinary, project-based experiences that span seven weeks and are organized around a common “big” inquiry question, with content-area driving questions and specific “concept” activities that are aligned to...