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Teacher Discusses How She Modifies Her Time to Meet Students' Needs at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, shares how she prioritizes small-group instruction time given competing needs and demands within a personalized learning environment. Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: I divide based on what I think kids need the most. So,...
Teacher Discusses Priorities for Monitoring Independent Learning Time at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, discusses the "ladder of priorities" for monitoring and supporting students during independent learning time. Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: every flex center has a monitor for that center, and they have...
Rotation Time Allocation
Limiting the amount of time spent on any learning task based on developmental research.
Roots Executive Director Discussing the Benefit of Defaulting to Playlists
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses the benefit of a norm of defaulting to their independent learning tasks if not scheduled directly with a teacher during a learning block.Transcript: Jon Hanover: some of the early pioneers in...
Roots Executive Director Discusses Benefits of Periodic Benchmark Assessments at Roots
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how the team uses leveled competency-based assessments across every content area to assess growth and learning trajectories. Transcript: Jon Hanover: roughly every six to eight weeks, we...
Roots Executive Director Provides an Overview of Creation of Schedules
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares the process for scheduling student and teacher time.Transcript: Jon Hanover: we built an app that basically allows our habits of success coaches in partnership with scholars to basically plan out their...
Teacher Discusses Leveraging Student Feedback at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains how teachers are able to elicit and integrate student feedback to give them more choice and ownership over learning plans.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: I think right now, I think as the technology is new, and as our...
Teacher Discusses Student Choice at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, explains how choice is integrated into the student day, particularly during independent learning time.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: say okay, we have these four authors. Let's all choose which author we all as a...
Roots Executive Director Discusses Flexible Instruction through Data Use
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how Roots uses data to create long term learning plans as well as adjust near-daily to inform groupings.Transcript: Jon Hanover: – one of the things that's really unique about our model is that we...
Roots Teacher Discusses STEP Testing and Informal Data Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, discusses how the team uses STEP testing to inform literacy instruction.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: So, a lot of our data is done through – we do what's called step testing, which is a literacy test that does...