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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Explains Her Role
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how her role supports teachers. Transcript: Jill Tew: ...my job is to make sure that teachers can focus as much of their mental energy and their time and focus on how to be the best...
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of Creating Tech Tools
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how the school has worked to create and develop custom applications to support integrations and student and teacher workflow. Transcript: Jill Tew: the first thing that we did this...
Teacher Explains Calendar Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, how she uses Google Calendar to support daily instruction and student workflow.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: the way that we know where to be and what to do is – everything is run off of Google Calendars for us. So...
Master Schedules for Coordination
Using a series of simple rules to make sure students' time is not double-booked.
Roots' Flexible Use of Time
Roots' daily calendar is very flexible, which allows teachers to meet with students on a frequent and as-needed basis.
Content Teacher Discusses Benefits of Habits of Success Teachers at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, is a content-area teacher. She explains the value of having Habits of Success teaching peers to support the content-area work. Transcript: Samantha Gambino: they're having one-on-one conversations about like,...
Teacher Discusses Priorities for Monitoring Independent Learning Time at Roots
Roots teacher, Mackenzie Wagner, discusses the "ladder of priorities" for monitoring and supporting students during independent learning time. Transcript: Mackenzie Wagner: every flex center has a monitor for that center, and they have...
6-8 Week Learning Groups
Students are assigned to learning groups for a 6-8 week cycle in addition to shorter term small groups.
Roots Executive Director Provides Overview of Different Groupings at Roots
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how the team uses homogeneous and heterogeneous grouping structures to support student learning. Transcript: Jon Hanover: Throughout the day, we kind of strike a balance by having different...
Co-creation of schedules
Root's seeks input from students on how they spend their learning time through one-on-one conferences.
Teammates as a Source of Motivation at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how peers can be a source of support and motivation for students in setting and attaining goals.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: One cool thing I saw happening really early was that there was this really nice peer pressure...