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Balancing Blended Structures and Teacher Autonomy at Cisco

Cisco ISD has provides enough structure and guidance to help ensure quality and consistency across classrooms, but also allows teachers to have autonomy over the instructional approaches used in their classrooms.

How can blended learning work in a remote setting?

Social-Emotional Learning Small Groups

Create small groups for students to engage in guided and structured social-emotional learning while also building classroom culture and relationships.

Valor Collegiate Academies

Valor Collegiate Academies consists of two public charter schools in Nashville, TN, serving students in grades 5-8. Their instructional model includes a blended and personalized math class, as well as a large emphasis on student social and emotional...

Leadership That Moves You Forward, Part II: Engagement, Collaboration, and Teambuilding

This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the most impactful actions site-level leadership can use to effectively lead schools through engagement, collaboration, and teambuilding.

Scaling Using a Cohort Model

How to ensure consistency of implementation across the system at a pace that works for all schools.

Deliberately Creating a Culture of Change

How to address mindset shift productively when making a district-wide instructional shift.

“Fast and Furious” vs. “Slow and Steady”: How fast should we be moving from pilot to scale? What will help us best achieve sustainability?

This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.

Henry County’s School Redesign Process

Every school in Henry County that transitions to personalized learning must participate in the districts design process.

Cisco ISD’s Redesign Process

Cisco ISD has been highly intentional about how it is trying to improve teaching and learning for its students.

Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience: How flexible should our district strategy be over time?

This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.