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Mastery Charter Schools: Getting Inspired by Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogy
Mastery Charter Schools has a clear commitment to equity – its vision is to be a model anti-racist school district. To live out this commitment, Mastery seeks to provide affirming, engaging, and culturally relevant learning experiences for all...
Video Pairing
When students are watching a video, adding activities like interactive handouts, reflection questions, and checks for understanding makes the learning more active.
Portfolio-Based Grade Interviews
To support students’ metacognition as well as foster standards-based grading, teachers at Austin ISD piloted grade interviews with their students, allowing them to self-assess on a rubric and defend their grade through 1:1 conversation with their...
Virtual Personalized Student Learning Plans
Virtual student-driven learning plans based on personalized, student choice with embedded opportunities for reflection.
Interdisciplinary Learning Through Teacher Teams
Teachers work together to create interdisciplinary, project-based experiences that span seven weeks and are organized around a common “big” inquiry question, with content-area driving questions and specific “concept” activities that are aligned to...
Remote Cross-District Collaboration
Leveraging the shift to remote schooling, Austin ISD fostered cross-district collaboration between teachers and leaders from across the city.
Personalized, Virtual Communities of Practice at Dallas ISD
Kristen Watkins, Director, Personalized Learning at Dallas ISD describes the launch of personalized learning “camping trips” to support virtual communities of practice.
Museum of Science, Boston - Model of the Atom Exhibit Rubric
Example of a project rubric from the Museum of Science, Boston on building a model of the atom, which mirrors an exhibit that can be seen in the museum.
Taking High School Drama Performance Online
High school drama program found ways to follow safety measures and to record and edit the production so anyone could watch the performance.
Districtwide Morning Meeting Time
Build in a time at all schools for all students regardless of location (virtual or in-person) when they are able to build relationships with staff members and their peers.
Middle School Cohort Model for In-Person Learning During COVID-19
Cedar Rapids recognizes that instruction would likely be stronger if content teachers rotated classrooms, but district leaders had to accept the tradeoffs of synchronous online learning to reduce teachers’ interactions with multiple cohorts of...