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Building a Partnership with Local Community College To Increase Access to Learning Opportunities
Meriden Public Schools partnered with its local community college to exchange high school classroom space for free college courses for Meriden staff and students.
Personalized, Virtual Communities of Practice at Dallas ISD
Kristen Watkins, Director, Personalized Learning at Dallas ISD describes the launch of personalized learning “camping trips” to support virtual communities of practice.
Focusing Instruction Through Standards Prioritization and Model Units
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District chose to focus teaching and learning on the most important content for each grade-level and subject-area.
Creating Consistency for Family Engagement Touchpoints
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School district implemented a districtwide family engagement plan based around quarterly phone calls to surface needs and concerns from families. Learn how the district created consistent...
What I Need (WIN) Block
To provide their high school students with a flexible option to support individual interests and needs, Mendon-Upton Regional School District embedded a “What I Need” (WIN) block within their daily schedule to allow for choice in activity.
Desktop Icon "Help Desk" Requests
To help with technical issues, the district installed a help ticket icon on all school-issued devices. Each time a form was submitted, the technology department received an email and created a log of all closed tickets.
Piloting Mastery-Based Grading
In response to the high failure rates seen during the pandemic, Monterey Peninsula shifted its grading system to be more focused on standards mastery.
Districtwide Learning Framework To Create Coherence With Greater School Autonomy
Hopkins Public Schools shifted decision-making to be more school-based and used the district learning framework to provide guidance and ensure coherence and continuity across the district.
Episode 10: Distinctive Schools on Communities of Care and Thoughtful Instructional Strategies
On this episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, we speak with two leaders at Distinctive Schools...
Remote Pathways
Just like in an in-person environment, students in remote and hybrid environments can benefit from working in small groups for a variety of reasons including content support and enhanced, personalized working environments.
Adult Wellbeing in Schools
The same pandemic, economic, social, and political forces that have impacted students have also adversely affected many educators across roles and contexts.