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Roots' Assigned Staff to Lead Independent Work Time
Roots' Habit of Success teachers lead independent work time, which allows content area teachers to focus on working directly with students.
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...
Roots Executive Director Discusses Benefits of Periodic Benchmark Assessments at Roots
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how the team uses leveled competency-based assessments across every content area to assess growth and learning trajectories. Transcript: Jon Hanover: roughly every six to eight weeks, we...
Teacher Discusses Small Group Instruction at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains the scheduling and sizing of small groups.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: But the other part of the day, for me, is small groups. So, I – I'm scheduled groups of kids based on very specific needs, based on data that...
Roots Executive Director Provides an Overview of Creation of Schedules
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares the process for scheduling student and teacher time.Transcript: Jon Hanover: we built an app that basically allows our habits of success coaches in partnership with scholars to basically plan out their...
Roots Teacher Discusses STEP Testing and Informal Data Use at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, discusses how the team uses STEP testing to inform literacy instruction.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: So, a lot of our data is done through – we do what's called step testing, which is a literacy test that does...
Roots Writing Data Workbook Data Entry
This is an example Data Entry workbook for a student at Roots and shows the plethora of data collected for each student.
Heterogeneous Teams at LPS Richmond
Sophia Thomas, teacher, uses a heterogeneous teaming strategy to support student learning. Transcript: Sophia Thomas: I decided to switch after my first team competition to heterogeneous groupings. How did I make that choice? In the first...
Direct Instruction for Academic Content and Non-Cognitive Skills
Teachers use whole-group instruction to address skills needed for all students.
Data Dashboard for Progress Monitoring
Teachers use a dashboard to monitor goal-setting and progress.
Daily Large Group Instruction
Learning Facilitators provide daily whole group instruction for introduction of commonly needed skills or review topics.