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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of the Physical Space
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how physical space is used differently at the school to accommodate and enable personalized learning. Transcript: Jill Tew: the space at Roots looks a little bit different from a...
Roots Executive Director Discussing Benefits of Heterogeneous Groups
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses why the teaching team uses heterogeneous grouping approaches. Transcript: Jon Hanover: I think of the benefits in two ways. First, it's just an efficiency game. Like every public school in the...
Roots Executive Director Explains Calendar Use
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, shares more on how Google Calendar is used to direct student and teacher workflow throughout the school day.Transcript: Jon Hanover: basically, Google Calendar powers most of the logistics. All our scholars...
Teacher Discusses How She Modifies Her Time to Meet Students' Needs at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, shares how she prioritizes small-group instruction time given competing needs and demands within a personalized learning environment. Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: I divide based on what I think kids need the most. So,...
Rotation Time Allocation
Limiting the amount of time spent on any learning task based on developmental research.
Extended Learning
Once they demonstrate that they've learned how to care for their devices, students at Roots are able to take their iPads home at night and on the weekends.
Creation and Use of Micro-Standards
Roots has broken down grade-level standards to more discrete micro-standards.
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.
Daily and Weekly Goal-Setting
Students start their week by determining how many and which learning goals they would like to pursue.
LPS Work Evidence Assessment
This is a sample work evidence assessment for LPS Navigate Math. Students complete this when they have progressed through a unit at the 50% and 100% marks. This allows teachers to see student work and make sure it matches with their completion and...
Moving Up Reading Levels at Lindsay
Marco Lopez, a Lindsay student, explains how he can work beyond grade level in literacy. Transcript: Marco Lopez: At the beginning of the school year we took a benchmark test kind of and it put us in a position where we could read. And then slowly,...