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Personalized Learning Time at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how students have choice over what to work on and who to work with during Personalized Learning Time. Transcript: Marla Earnest: [...] we have personalized learning time. And during that time kids are able to work...
Choosing to Demonstrate Advanced Knowledge at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how students who achieve proficiency on a standard can choose to demonstrate deeper mastery.Transcript: Marla Earnest: The fours are always student choice. If they want to show that they have advanced knowledge of this...
Student Choice of Mastery Projects at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how students get choice over how to demonstrate higher levels of mastery.Transcript: Marla Earnest: [...] they get to choose. There's a lot of voice and choice, so within a class period you might see kids presenting on...
Student Choice Over How to Demonstrate Mastery at Lindsay
A student explains how he decided to choose and execute against his own "level four" mastery demonstration. Transcript: Marco Lopez: She gave us an opportunity for a Level Four, but a Level Four seemed kind of – I didn't really like it....
Different Learning Choices Students Make at Lindsay
Brandy Quintero, a teacher at Lindsay, explains how students have choice over when to take an assessment as well as which content areas to tackle. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: So students can come in here. And these are all the standards that...
Learner Choice of Learning Resources
Learners are able to choose from multiple learning resources for each content module/unit.
Feedback Modifications for English Learners at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how she provides feedback within a performance based system for English language learners.Transcript: Marla Earnest: In ELD it looks a little bit different because when they score based on that rubric they're not going...
Instructional Modifications for English Learners at Lindsay
Teacher Marla Earnest explains how she modifies learning activities to support English language learners.Transcript: Marla Earnest: It depends on the kid. It depends on what level they're working on. But let's take a newcomer, for example, a learner...
Focusing on Most Important Standards at Lindsay
Brandy Quintero, a Lindsay teacher, discusses how the district identifies certain learning standards to prioritize over others. Transcript: Brandy Quintero: We don't have every Common Core standard in ninth grade. We've kind of focused on the...
Power Standards
While Learners must master all standards, teachers identify "power standards" to help Learners focus on those they think are most important.