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Assessment for Academic Skills
Examples of student assessment for academic skills from Leadership Public Schools.
Take Advantage of Lost Learning Time
Virtual learning days may occur once a week, just a few times a semester, or exclusively when there is an emergency situation such as a “snow day.” On these days, teachers post class assignments online and students work on them at their own pace...
Intersession Sparks Exploration and Lifelong Learning at The Nueva School
Nueva runs a PK-8 campus and a high school. Both these independent schools offer a six-day intersession for students to develop interdisciplinary exploration with real world experts, extending beyond the usual academic disciplines. Students choose...
Greeley-Evans School District’s Unit Model
This one-slide overview of a math unit from Greeley-Evans School District highlights how various aspects of personalized learning, including differentiation and formative checkpoints, integrate with core instructional components (e.g., warm-ups,...
Complete Sentences
Students build language proficiency within academic conversations through responding to teachers using complete sentences whenever they speak.
Scaffolded Summary
Crafting sentence and paragraph stems can support students who are learning English in summarizing content in a more scaffolded way.
Say Something Cards
Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.
What is Total Language Response?
This video explains what Total Language Response (TLR) is and how to use it to better support students who are learning English.
Non-Verbal Representation
How to use non-verbal support (e.g., visual and auditory input) to communicate concepts, meaning, and to build vocabulary and content knowledge.
Grammar Walls
This website shares information around creating a “Grammar Wall” with children, along with ideas on how to make the activity colorful, age-appropriate, and content-focused.