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Teacher Discusses Groupings in Literacy at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, shares how she uses literacy assessment data to inform small group creation and instruction.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: for me in particular, reading, everyone gets pulled into a small group because literacy, we...
Teacher Providing an Overview of One-on-One Conferencing at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, talks about the value of one-on-one student conferencingTranscript: Megan Miles: One thing that we do that I really love is that we have one-on-ones. So that's what one of the coaches was doing this morning. I don't know...
Roots One-on-One Conferencing Spreadsheet
Roots uses one-on-one conferencing spreadsheets so that students are able to benchmark their progress and set goals in a tangible manner. Teachers walk through the tool with students, with updates made in different colors to track change over time.
Roots Template One-on-One Conference Spreadsheet
This blank Roots template can be used to input student data during and after one-on-one conferences.
One-on-One Conferencing
Habits of Success teachers have significant flexible time available for individual student conferencing.
Roots Executive Director Provides an Overview of Creation of Schedules
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares the process for scheduling student and teacher time.Transcript: Jon Hanover: we built an app that basically allows our habits of success coaches in partnership with scholars to basically plan out their...
Teacher Discusses Leveraging Student Feedback at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains how teachers are able to elicit and integrate student feedback to give them more choice and ownership over learning plans.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: I think right now, I think as the technology is new, and as our...
Teacher Discusses Personalized Learning Experiences at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, explains how rotations through different activities are personalized to student need and choice. Transcript: Megan Miles: when they're in the grove, each kid has a different grove schedule. So they're the same...
Co-creation of schedules
Root's seeks input from students on how they spend their learning time through one-on-one conferences.
Teacher Discusses Student Choice at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, explains how choice is integrated into the student day, particularly during independent learning time.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: say okay, we have these four authors. Let's all choose which author we all as a...
Roots Student Learning Standards
Roots learning standards are content standards unpacked into learning objectives they want each student to meet.