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Using a Capacity Matrix as a Pacing Guide at Lindsay
Brandy Quintero, a teacher at Lindsay, explains why and how teachers decided to integrate a pacing guide into the district's capacity matrix.Transcript: Brandy Quintero: When we started out with the capacity nature, just it was more like a checklist...
Authentic Projects
Teachers use the Summit PLP to create authentic projects that deepen student learning and allow for the development of cognitive skills and conceptual knowledge.
Opportunity Hour at Trailblazer
Students self-select a topic of interest to learn for one hour per week, allowing general education teachers to meet in professional learning communities.
Learner Pathways at Trailblazer
Short, daily pre-assessments along with student choice determine the pathways and groups students engage in each day.
Personalizing Pathways Based on Formative Data at Trailblazer
Teachers use pre-assessments and student choice to design student learning pathways.
Leveraging Technology to Provide Online Pathways and Resources at Trailblazer
Based on learning pathways, students access content and resources online.
Math Expressions
Math Expressions combines elements of standards-based instruction with the best traditional approaches. Through drawings, conceptual language, inquiry, and real-world examples, it helps students make sense of mathematics.
Trailblazer Learning Pathways
Teachers at Trailblazer organize content for learner pathways in Schoology.
Promoting Personalization through Learner Pathways
Learner pathways incorporate both pre-assessment data and student choice to determine the instructional activities students engage with in class.
Lovett Flex Friday Assessment (Student Made)
Lovett students chose to teach Spanish to their class during Flex Friday. This is an example of an assessment they created for the class.
Modifying Standards to Meet Student Needs
Lovett uses the Common Core State Standards but modifies them to better meet the needs of their students, often teaching additional skills students make need to successfully master the standards.