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Pacing Prompts
Given students move at their own pace, teachers provide prompts to keep them moving and on track.
Teacher Explains Benefits of ClassDojo for Behavior Monitoring at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, shares how ClassDojo is used to collect data on student behaviors in order to inform support provided to students. Transcript: Megan Miles: right now what we do, and we're trying to find a system – and most...
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses the "Why" and the "How" of Tech Tool Development
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the team's philosophy for understanding technology needs, doing diligence on existing products, and developing tools to fill gaps. Transcript: Jill Tew: Whole process, we were thinking...
Roots Executive Director Discusses Structure for Scheduling
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses the norms and routines used for scheduling student and teacher activities. Transcript: Jon Hanover:basically what we did is we split our content team as – for growth, there's four different...
One-on-One Conferencing
Habits of Success teachers have significant flexible time available for individual student conferencing.
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...
Daily and Weekly Goal-Setting
Students start their week by determining how many and which learning goals they would like to pursue.
Self-Reported Grading
Students report their own data by inputting it into to the dashboard.
Flexible Daily Small Group Instruction
Teacher is able to see what every student is working on each day and can pull students working on similar learning objectives into groups as appropriate.