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What are Open Educational Resources and how can I start using them?
Educators seeking to understand and use Open Educational Resources (OER) can use this guide to help them search for high-quality, rigorous, and standards-aligned OER.
How can I utilize Open Educational Resources to personalize lessons and assessments?
This guide will help educators and school leaders working with Open Educational Resources (OER) to personalize lessons and meet student needs.
Retrieval Practice - Power Tools for Instruction: IgnitED Research Insight
This installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on how retrieving information helps students learn.
Learner-Led Classroom Management: IgnitED Research Insight
In this installment of IgnitED Research, a series that aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice, we look at classroom management and how to empower students to co-create and drive management processes.
How to Introduce “the Why” by Distinctive Schools
Even before moving to moving to blended and personalized learning, CICS West Belden was a high-performing elementary school in Chicago. However, in staffwide conversations, the team realized they needed to keep pushing to help students develop all...
Utilizing PLCs to Support New Teachers
Slides 8-13 in this deck provide an overview of professional learning communities (PLCs) and how they are introduced to new teachers in Natick Public Schools. The slides cover what PLCs are, as well as the core values, key priorities, and questions...
Distinctive Schools’ Personalized Learning Opportunities
Distinctive Schools designed and outlined multiple options for educators and schools to use to engage in personalized learning professional development and growth. Through these various opportunities, including fellowships, school visits, and design...
Dallas ISD’s Educator Learner Profile Examples
A learner profile tells an individual’s academic and personal story over time and helps to establish a coaching relationship. It includes strengths, areas for growth, interests, aspirations, goals and how the individual learns best.
Knowing the “Why": How do leaders communicate with new teachers around the purpose and vision of their innovative models?
Clearly communicating the “why” behind a school’s innovative model – not just the model itself – is an essential strategy for building new teachers’ abilities to understand and implement. This guide will explore various ways schools and districts...
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
Knowing the Community: How do leaders ensure new teachers understand and engage with the communities they serve?
When designing onboarding for new teachers (new to the school or to teaching in that school), it’s important to ensure they not only understand the school from an instructional standpoint but also get to know and understand the community they will...