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Portfolio-Based Grade Interviews
To support students’ metacognition as well as foster standards-based grading, teachers at Austin ISD piloted grade interviews with their students, allowing them to self-assess on a rubric and defend their grade through 1:1 conversation with their...
Field Guide: Grade Interviews
To support teachers in their rollout of the grade interview strategy, Austin ISD’s Strategy Lab team created a simple one-pager with the essential information required. The “Field Guide” includes teacher and student actions as well as checklists for...
Virtual Personalized Student Learning Plans
Virtual student-driven learning plans based on personalized, student choice with embedded opportunities for reflection.
Teacher-Selected, Domain-Specific PD Tracks
Teachers opt-in to a specific track of professional development based on their interest in a certain domain of Chicago Public Schools’ Personalized Learning Framework.
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...
Schoolwide Student Identity Day
Students were guided to explore their individual identities and reflect on how their identities influenced their ability to learn and leverage their strengths. To celebrate this work, the school held an Identity Day assembly.
Interdisciplinary Learning Through Teacher Teams
Teachers work together to create interdisciplinary, project-based experiences that span seven weeks and are organized around a common “big” inquiry question, with content-area driving questions and specific “concept” activities that are aligned to...
Multi-Grade Level Classrooms
As a result of the pandemic and changing class sizes for students returning in-person, elementary schools shifted from single grade level classes to multi-grade level classes. This allowed creating even class sizes with frequently shifting numbers...
Developing Students' Self-Management Skills at Chicago Public Schools
Savannah Bell, Personalized Learning Leader at Chicago Public Schools, describes how teachers and leaders at Tanner Elementary School adapted their social-emotional learning scope and sequence to focus on self-management skills.
Mastery-Based Math Learning Through “Cafés”
Liberty Public Schools math teachers piloted a mastery-based learning model to support student self-direction and personalized pacing. Elementary school teachers built lessons around a continuum of standards and allowed for students to attend...