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Reflecting on Hops, Skips, and Leaps at Taos Academy Charter
In this Insight, Elizabeth LeBlanc shares some of the hops, skips, and leaps Taos Academy Charter has made during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate effective teaching and learning – and examines what they'll take forward with them.
Setting Expectations Through Surveys
As students and teachers return to in-person learning, it is important to align on expectations, leverage learnings and students' skills from remote instruction, and design experiences that will support students in effective ways.
Non-Verbal Engagement
Utilize non-verbal feedback (e.g., emojis) to visually show when students are ready, need more time, have questions, or want to convey another reaction. This strategy allows students to quickly communicate in a low-stakes – and even entertaining –...
Remote Pathways
Just like in an in-person environment, students in remote and hybrid environments can benefit from working in small groups for a variety of reasons including content support and enhanced, personalized working environments.
Three Steps to Effectively Engage Learners in a Synchronous Video Learning Experience
Explore ways to design an effective synchronous video learning experiences, starting with what you already know and exploring the effective in-person strategies you used prior to remote learning.
VLACS Discussion-Based Assessment Rubric
VLACS created a rubric that explains the goals of discussion-based assessments along with details of how students can demonstrate mastery and meet articulated expectations.
Virtual Engagement Profiles
Schools create a dashboard or profile of each student, displaying their engagement, academic performance, and whether or not they need additional support.
Student Badges
Students collect badges to show what they have mastered on a specific pathway or skillset. These badges show qualifications on a smaller scale than a course grade or diploma.
Learning Studios
Learning studios offer a different classroom design in which students collaborate in groups and instructors serve as facilitators.
Measuring Unfinished Learning: A Guide for Schools and Systems to Understand and Measure Student Progress
This insight investigates how education leaders can take an asset-based approach to measuring student learning, offering concrete processes and methodology to examine learner growth during times of disruption to student learning.
Unfinished Learning: How do you begin to measure student progress during disruption?
Measuring unfinished learning requires a strategic measurement process that starts with reviewing data, creating strong research questions, and collecting data. This process will help make connections between learning mastery and enabling structures...