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ReNEW DTA Academy
ReNEW’s Dolores T. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) is a charter school serving students in pre-K through 8th grade in New Orleans, LA that has developed a mastery-based, 8th grade math program.
Common Behavior Management Techniques
Roots employs a variety of techniques to provide students the right type of behavioral feedback and support.
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Explains Her Role
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how her role supports teachers. Transcript: Jill Tew: ...my job is to make sure that teachers can focus as much of their mental energy and their time and focus on how to be the best...
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses Use of Google Apps
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the importance of Google Apps to Root's instructional and operational model. Transcript: Jill Tew: I think Google and its kind of skeleton will always make sense for us as kind of the...
Roots' Supplements to Google Apps for Education
Roots built multiple simple tools to integrate with Google Apps to support scheduling, activity assignment, and data analysis.
Roots Executive Director Discussing Pilot Process for Software
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares how the team thinks about and executes the piloting and selecting of new technologies based upon identified needs. Transcript: Jon Hanover: Yeah, so our process pretty much looked like this, we'd...
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...
Roots Teacher Discusses STEP Testing and Informal Data Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, discusses how the team uses STEP testing to inform literacy instruction.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: So, a lot of our data is done through – we do what's called step testing, which is a literacy test that does...
Roots Executive Director Provides Overview of Utilizing NWEA MAP
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how the team uses NWEA's MAP assessment to understand how the school is doing compared to others nationally.Transcript: Jon Hanover: We take the NWEA MAP fall, winter, spring, and that's kind of our...
Creating Student Groups at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains her strategy for creating learning groups.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: When I do the group, I'm looking at a couple of things. I'm looking at the data on my teacher dashboard. I'm looking at the planner. I'm also...
Daily and Weekly Goal-Setting
Students start their week by determining how many and which learning goals they would like to pursue.