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Creating Guidelines and Coherence for Teacher-Led PD at D11
Nicole Ottmer, Personalized Learning Systems Coordinator at Colorado Springs School District 11 describes what resources and guidance the district provided to support teachers and increase quality as they created their own professional development...
Prioritizing Standards and Modeling Standards-Based Units
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District worked with teachers to narrow their focus based on priorities aligned around standards.
How Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Reduced Their Failure Rate by over 60%
This Getting Smart article tells more of the story behind MPUSD’s switch to mastery grading during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rethinking the Use of Outdoor and Community Spaces
With school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins Public Schools reimagined their use of outdoor and community spaces to return to in-person teaching and learning.
Episode 2: How Hopkins Public Schools Maximized Inquiry Learning, Outdoor Spaces, Community Partnerships, and Feedback
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, Ann Ertl of Hopkins Public Schools details the...
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.
Three Steps to Effectively Engage Learners in a Synchronous Video Learning Experience
Explore ways to design an effective synchronous video learning experiences, starting with what you already know and exploring the effective in-person strategies you used prior to remote learning.
Creating & Reusing Masks During COVID-19
Ariadne Labs shows ways to create masks and how to properly clean them so they can be reused.
Evidence that Masks Work During COVID-19
Ariadne Labs created a graphic of a CDC case study where two hairstylists with COVID-19 wore masks and did not transmit the virus to 139 clients who also wore masks.
Schools for Health: Risk Reduction Strategies for Reopening Schools
Healthy Buildings, an initiative of the Harvard T.H. Chan Public School of Health, has put together a comprehensive guide on keeping classrooms and school buildings clean and safe for students and staff (pages 39-40 focus on sanitization).
Parent Information Sessions
My Tech High hires parent support specialists to assist parents, families, and caregivers in their students’ online educational journeys. The specialists offer daily Q&A sessions, Monday through Friday, as well as ongoing information sessions on a...