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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of Creating Tech Tools
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how the school has worked to create and develop custom applications to support integrations and student and teacher workflow. Transcript: Jill Tew: the first thing that we did this...
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses Use of Google Apps
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the importance of Google Apps to Root's instructional and operational model. Transcript: Jill Tew: I think Google and its kind of skeleton will always make sense for us as kind of the...
Roots Executive Director Discussing Pilot Process for Software
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares how the team thinks about and executes the piloting and selecting of new technologies based upon identified needs. Transcript: Jon Hanover: Yeah, so our process pretty much looked like this, we'd...
Teacher Explains Calendar Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, how she uses Google Calendar to support daily instruction and student workflow.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: the way that we know where to be and what to do is – everything is run off of Google Calendars for us. So...
Teacher Explains Student iPads Use for Scheduling at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, shares how iPads are introduced to and used by students throughout the school day and year.Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: In the beginning, it was really tricky. The iPads are obviously something that are totally new...
Teacher Use of Master Calendars at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, talks about how teachers use Google Calendar to schedule time with students. Transcript: Samantha Gambino: all of us are able to just like, in Google Calendar – once every scholar has an e-mail address, like you...
Teacher Discusses Schedule Coordination at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, discusses the structure of her school day Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: Our day is broken up into a lot of different parts, and so it's basically a matter of organizing those different parts of the day in your...
Roots' Flexible Use of Time
Roots' daily calendar is very flexible, which allows teachers to meet with students on a frequent and as-needed basis.
Roots' Assigned Staff to Lead Independent Work Time
Roots' Habit of Success teachers lead independent work time, which allows content area teachers to focus on working directly with students.
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...