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Pleasant View's Weekly Collaborative Planning Time
Pleasant View Elementary teachers meet weekly to plan instruction.
Authentic Projects
Teachers use the Summit PLP to create authentic projects that deepen student learning and allow for the development of cognitive skills and conceptual knowledge.
Shifting to self-directed learning: Setting a "default" mode
Blended and personalized learning models attempt to put students into greater control of their learning. Teachers need to build in explicit supports and structures to support students as they exercise greater choice and control. One structure we...
What Student Choice and Agency Actually Look Like
Snapshots from six schools using blended learning to put students in control. (Originally published in eSchoolNews on November 14, 2016)
Innovative Approaches to Mastery-Based Grading
Springpoint's paper, Inside Mastery Based High Schools: Profiles and Conversations, includes several innovative approaches to the challenge of mastery-based grading.
Creating Culture that Drives Personalization
Creating a classroom culture that personalizes learning for students is facilitated by teaching key skills and mindsets that students need to navigate their education.
Trailblazer Elementary School
Trailblazer Elementary School serves K-5 students in Colorado Springs School District 11, infusing competency development, personalized learning and collaboration to provide real world learning opportunities for students.
Inclusion Approach to Special Education
Special education teachers push into general education classrooms, pulling various small groups to lead data-based interventions.
Student Voice and Choice - Common Practices
At Trailblazer, students have voice and choice in how they want to learn and show mastery of a concept.
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined?
States and districts have traditionally controlled the resources that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to make the decisions they think will most benefit students are...