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Teacher Discusses Personalized Learning Experiences at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, explains how rotations through different activities are personalized to student need and choice. Transcript: Megan Miles: when they're in the grove, each kid has a different grove schedule. So they're the same...
Teacher Discusses Student Choice at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, explains how choice is integrated into the student day, particularly during independent learning time.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: say okay, we have these four authors. Let's all choose which author we all as a...
Co-creation of schedules
Root's seeks input from students on how they spend their learning time through one-on-one conferences.
Roots Executive Director Discusses Flexible Instruction through Data Use
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how Roots uses data to create long term learning plans as well as adjust near-daily to inform groupings.Transcript: Jon Hanover: – one of the things that's really unique about our model is that we...
Teacher Discusses Students Moving Beyond Grade Level at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains the school's philosophy for letting students move with mastery across grade levels rather than seat-time.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: We move them to the next grade. So ST Math doesn't necessarily recommend that,...
LPS's Academic Numeracy Specialist Role
The Navigate Math role requires comfort with blended learning as well as deep content expertise. For this reason, it is staffed as a specialist role across the LPS network.
Common Launch
While Navigate Math is a self-paced course, the class always opens with a common learning experience.
Class Competitions at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how class competitions are used to motivate students.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: I can set competitions for however long I choose. I started out with two week competitions. Then I switched to three week competitions....
Visual Dashboards for Class Competitions at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how the class developed visual dashboards to show individual and team progress against goals in order to engage students, celebrate growth, and stay on pace.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: Purple is in the moment on that...
Working in Teams at LPS Richmond
An LPS student explains how they work with others in class.Transcript: Student: My name is Obet. Interviewer: Obet. And can you tell me about kind of working on teams in this class?Student: Well we basically – we have units. On our team we're like...
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...