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Class Competitions
To keep students on pace, teachers create a class competition that runs daily and by “unit.”
Heterogeneous Teams at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, uses a heterogeneous teaming strategy to support student learning. Transcript: Sophia Thomas: I decided to switch after my first team competition to heterogeneous groupings. How did I make that choice? In the first...
Students' Weekly Goals at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how student set weekly goals for their learning.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: Their weekly goal is around thinking for this week I am starting the week at maybe 50 percent. Do I want my goal to be a completion goal?...
Direct Instruction for Non-cognitive Skills at LPS
Walk through of how the first two units are structured as a class. LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS...
Peer Grading at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how peer grading is used as a strategy to deepen learning. Students use a rubric to grade their own and others' work. Transcript: Interviewer: Can you talk about grading? I noticed that students can grade their own,...
Student Choice of Homework at LPS
Overview of how students choose homework. LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS has worked with Gooru to...
Teacher Example: Checking Homework Completion at LPS
How a teacher checks for class homework completion. LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS has worked...
Pre-Unit Diagnostics
Students take a diagnostic at the beginning of each unit to get a sense of which learning objectives they already know and which they need to work on.
Student Assessments in Gooru at LPS
General overview of how a student uses assessments in Gooru. LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS has...
Benefits of Student-Initiated Assessments at LPS
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how students at LPS are able to choose when they take a mastery assessment.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: The biggest thing is they choose when they take their summative assessment. With this model, every single kid is...
Student Example: Tiered Supports at LPS
Example of how students would use the support model in class. LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS has...