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What are the design factors that drive quality in K-12 remote learning?
Strong remote instruction leverages key research-informed design features to effectively engage students in learning. This guide will explore three design areas – technology, pedagogy, and relationships – that teachers should consider, as well as...
How can I integrate specific blended learning practices to meet individual needs during remote instruction?
Looking for ways to implement powerful instructional practices within remote instruction? This guide explores specific strategies that leverage varied modalities to effectively collect and use data, offer personalization points, and enable progress...
How do I ensure students are engaged with each other and the content in a hybrid and/or remote learning environment?
Struggling with student engagement in your hybrid or remote classroom? This guide shares specific strategies that build student buy-in and participation in online or hybrid learning sessions.
Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders
When designing change, teams ensure that stakeholders – students, families, teachers, and classified staff – are the primary sources of input for what change is necessary and what change might look like through direct interviewing.
Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Process
When designing change, teams regularly pause and reflect on how equity is embedded in their change processes.
Cedar Rapids: Connecting Empathy Interviews and Standards-Based Learning
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. As they reviewed...
Mastery Charter Schools: Problem of Practice on a Culturally Relevant Blended Learning Model
Mastery Charter Schools interviewed a range of teachers and students to identify opportunities to improve teaching and learning. From those conversations, they identified: the need for students to more actively own their learning (versus relying on...
Activity: Define a Problem of Practice
When designing change, teams define a problem to tackle, asking “How might we?” as a way to start to imagine a more equitable, resilient future of teaching and learning.
Mastery Charter Schools: Brainstorming Ideas for Blended Learning that Foster Independence
Mastery Charter Schools sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we build a blended learning model that fosters achievement and independence in our high school students?” In brainstorming solutions, the team identified three...
Monterey Peninsula: Brainstorming Ideas for Flexibility, Personalization, and Student Sense of Belonging
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we increase flexibility and personalization to build a sense of belonging and connection within the context of our labor and policy...