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Third and Fourth Grade Mastery-Based Grading
At Mt. Vernon Elementary School, mastery-based grading was implemented to support and encourage students to easily determine their own mastery guided by teacher feedback.
"Walking Time" to Support Standards Mastery
To help students recover unfinished learning time, teachers spend twenty-minute blocks teaching a specific standard to support student mastery.
THRIVE on Five Overview and Choice Boards
This communication sent from the district to families and students explained the launch of and thinking behind the virtual personalized learning days. The document contains links to guiding choice boards for projects in early childhood, elementary,...
Schoolwide Weekly 1:1 Student Conferences
Weekly, one-to-one conferences supported by all staff members to aid in student development of academic skills, goal setting, and personal relationship building.
Building Self-Paced Student Learning with Google Slides
To support students and teachers in remote learning, the Personalized Learning Department at Dallas ISD provided teachers with targeted support on how to create self-paced lessons in Google Slides to engage students virtually.
High-Dosage Tutoring
Metro Nashville Public Schools partnered with higher-education and community partners to provide one-on-one tutoring to students during the school day.
Single Sign-On for Multiple Digital Learning Platforms
To help support families with students in multiple grade levels living in one household, the district used ClassLink to provide families with one URL to access all programs.
Priority Standards & Measurement Topics for Cedar Rapids Middle Schools
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District chose to focus teaching and learning on the most important content for each grade-level and subject-area. They created this simple guide sharing the resulting priority standards and...
Distance-Learning MOU With a Focus on Instructional Aims
Leaders at Monterey Peninsula Unified School Districts worked to negotiate an agreement with union leaders that clearly defined expectations for remote instruction in ways that tied to student-centered aims.
Rethinking the Use of Outdoor and Community Spaces
With school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins Public Schools reimagined their use of outdoor and community spaces to return to in-person teaching and learning.
Reflecting on Hops, Skips, and Leaps at Taos Academy Charter
In this Insight, Elizabeth LeBlanc shares some of the hops, skips, and leaps Taos Academy Charter has made during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate effective teaching and learning – and examines what they'll take forward with them.