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Student-Friendly Schedules
Roots created a simple app to modify student calendars so they are easy to read.
Roots Executive Director Discusses Structure for Scheduling
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses the norms and routines used for scheduling student and teacher activities. Transcript: Jon Hanover:basically what we did is we split our content team as – for growth, there's four different...
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...
Master Schedules for Coordination
Using a series of simple rules to make sure students' time is not double-booked.
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...
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,...
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.
Content Teacher Discusses Benefits of Habits of Success Teachers at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, is a content-area teacher. She explains the value of having Habits of Success teaching peers to support the content-area work. Transcript: Samantha Gambino: they're having one-on-one conversations about like,...
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.
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...
Roots Executive Director Discussing How Much Time Students Spend on Online Programs
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how the school thinks about time spent online for learning (currently roughly 25% of the day).Transcript: Jon Hanover: the 25-percent is by no means a magic number; it's kind of a – that's really...