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Mix It Up! The Benefits of Mixed-Ability Groups: IgnitED Research Insight
This installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on the benefits of mixed-ability student groups.
Guide: OER Selection
Discover where to find and how to select high-quality OER to enhance or build your own curriculum.
Grade-Level and Personalized Supports with OER
Learn about WLA’s innovative OER model, where students take two math and ELA courses, alternating daily, to better support all students' needs.
Designing Student-Informed Modules Using OER
Learn how Concourse Village Elementary School was able to adopt new OER curriculum to support its students and create its own social studies and literacy interdisciplinary OER modules.
How can I utilize Open Educational Resources to personalize lessons and assessments?
This guide will help educators and school leaders working with Open Educational Resources (OER) to personalize lessons and meet student needs.
Model/Classroom Expectations
This is an observation rubric developed by Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston (Dallas ISD). The rubric focuses on four components of personalized learning: learner profiles, goal setting, data tracking, and data binders/student...
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
Tool: Blended Teaching Assessment Tool
As blended teaching becomes more prevalent throughout the country, leaders in the field are looking for how to measure and assess quality blended teaching skills. As part of her TLA Measurement Fellowship, Emily Pulham distilled the information...
Leadership That Moves You Forward: Innovation, Vision, and Planning
To help understand how district and building-level administrators can successfully manage the change process when leading personalized learning initiatives, the Institute for Teaching and Leading (i4tl) conducted research looking at which actions by...
Leadership That Moves You Forward, Part II: Engagement, Collaboration, and Teambuilding
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the most impactful actions site-level leadership can use to effectively lead schools through engagement, collaboration, and teambuilding.
Leveraging Language: How can students who are learning English use their home language in a personalized classroom?
Are you interested in learning how to better support your students who are learning English (“ELs”) by offering opportunities to use their home language in your general education classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific ways to engage your...