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Helping Students Set Goals with SMART Goals
Teachers help students set SMART goals, an exercise that builds agency and helps students improve their learning.
Providing Pacing Guidance with "Must Do" and "May Do" Tasks
Students work through playlists, which provide guidance as to which learning activities they must complete, and which ones they can choose to work on.
7 Reasons to Use Interactive Notebooks
This website maps out seven reasons to use interactive notebooks in an engaging and translatable manner. Interactive notebooks may help teach students to synthesize their thoughts, take ownership of their learning, and even build communication...
Defining Clear Roles in Group Work
Developing team roles is a strategy that helps students take individual responsibility for a shared group goal.
Cedar Rapids: Problem of Practice on Standards-Aligned Feedback
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) interviewed a range of teachers and students to identify opportunities to improve teaching and learning. The team heard a clear and consistent theme that stakeholders felt many students are not engaged...
Simultaneous Learning: How can I effectively work with in-person and remote students at the same time?
Grappling with creating effective learning experiences for students in your in-person classroom and students learning remotely at the same time? This guide shares specific strategies that help ensure student engagement, ownership, and connection.
How Giving All Stakeholders a Voice Can Improve School Reopening Plans
This article from KQED discusses the value in giving stakeholders like staff members and students opportunities to give input on school reopening plans to help build ownership and investment.
Step One: Craft a compelling why
Successful blended and personalized implementations have clear statements for why they are pursuing change through blended and personalized learning. They ground all of their work in this “why,” referring back to it again and again.
Lindsay High School
Lindsay High School serves all grade 9-12 students in Lindsay Unified Public Schools, a California district that uses a performance-based approach to personalized learning.
LPS Richmond
LPS Richmond California is part of the Leadership Public Schools (LPS) network of public charter high schools. It has developed a personalized academic numeracy program called Navigate Math.