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Cisco Junior High School
Cisco Junior High School is a small district school in Cisco, TX, about two hours outside of Dallas, serving students in grades 6-8. Cisco ISD has scaled blended learning to 3rd-8th grade math and science, and is working toward scaling across...
Designing Cisco ISD's Student Experience Pillars
Cisco ISD designed four core components of the student experience that it hopes to achieve through blended learning.
How do I deepen differentiation and personalization within a station rotation model?
Currently implementing stations and thinking “now what?” This guide will give you resources around how adding more flexibility of movement, timing, strategic data use, and varied groupings will allow for greater differentiation, personalization, and...
How do I develop student ownership and accountability in a station rotation model?
Implementing a station rotation model requires intentional accountability systems to develop student ownership and ensure student success. This guide will go through strategies for developing student ownership through choice, habits, and student...
Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
How can strategic staffing better serve students with learning disabilities?
This guide will give you concrete resources, research, and insights on three different ways to revisit your current staffing models to better serve students with learning disabilities, including reinventing the special education teacher role,...
Share Best Practices vs. Share Process/Failures: How might practitioners best learn from one another? What should we be cataloguing and sharing throughout the district?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of sharing “best practices” versus sharing our processes and failures, and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Centralized vs. Decentralized Implementation: How do we decide what the district should hold tight vs. loose?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of centralized or decentralized implementation of new instructional models and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience: How flexible should our district strategy be over time?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
System-Wide Definition of Blended or Personalized Learning
Creating coherence by articulating a clear vision and definition of blended or personalized learning.
Engaging Leaders in Culture Change
How to engage the entire district in a conversation around equity and change the culture of the system.