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District Leadership Gets Feedback Directly from School-Based Practitioners
Dr. Jeanette Westfall, Assistant Superintendent- Instructional Design, Liberty Public Schools, explains how she established a two-way channel between herself at the district leadership level and with coaches and teachers at the school level so that...
Flexibly Redeploying Classified Staff to Student Support
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District creatively leveraged personnel, particularly staff whose capacities were freed up, to address various student and family needs, such as attendance and engagement when shifting to distanced learning.
West Belden's Collaborative Teaching
West Belden teachers work across classrooms to deliver instruction and support to multi-age cohorts.
Roots Executive Director Discusses His Role
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discussed his role and how he works with his co-leader to support the school model. Transcript: Jon Hanover: So, it's definitely us working together. Jill's taken the lead on all of the tech stuff, and I've...
Job Description: ReNEW Schools Director of Personalized Learning
ReNEW has a network-wide Director of Personalized Learning to support blended and personalized efforts.
Roots Elementary Habits of Success Coach Job Description
Roots has a clear job description for their Elementary Habits of Success Coach positions so that their expectations and needs are set right from the start.
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...
Try a concept-progress model
Concept-progress strategies involve taking an academic concept and first focusing on large group “concept” instruction, then breaking students into smaller groups for targeted “progress” instruction. Check out Unlocking Time's strategy on leveraging...
By Design Project Guide
This is a sample project guide for a seven-week interdisciplinary project in ELA, science, social studies, and health. The guide outlines the big question and content area driving questions and explains for students and parents how progress towards...
By Design Unit Plan
This unit plan includes what students are learning in each class throughout the course of the project. It also includes standards covered for each content area and examples of evidence of learning developed by students.
By Design Vision
This website shows the vision of the By Design program and its key outcomes and components.