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Building a Direct Channel Between Teachers, Coaches, and Academic Leadership
Liberty Public Schools district leadership established communication channels with school-based practitioners. This allowed teachers and instructional coaches to share insights into day-to-day challenges with district leadership. This also provided...
Graduate Profile as Tool for Accelerating Personalized Learning Opportunities
Liberty Public Schools grounds instructional decision making in developing graduate competencies in five areas. Leaders used this profile to advance deeper learning models as well as to create virtual, personalized learning opportunities.
Remote Cross-District Collaboration
Leveraging the shift to remote schooling, Austin ISD fostered cross-district collaboration between teachers and leaders from across the city.
Partnering with Housing Authority to Increase Universal Wi-Fi Access
To improve internet access during remote learning, Austin ISD partnered with the local housing authority to identify locations where students were under connected. Buses equipped with hotspots were then parked in strategic locations across the city...
Expanding Community “Creative Learning” Initiative
Austin ISD created and maintained a community-wide partnership to increase "arts-rich" opportunities for all students in the pandemic.
Student-Led Family Conferences
To support students’ and family members’ understanding of how a student is performing in school while also working to increase student agency of their learning, teachers at Henry B. Gonzalez Personalized Learning Academy of Dallas Independent School...
Teach-Back Tuesdays
Using Flipgrid, students submit videos of themselves teaching a concept or skill to a person or object. Videos are shared during morning announcements.
Personalized Learning "Camping Trips" - Virtual Communities of Practice
Led by the Personalized Learning Department, Dallas ISD’s Personalized Learning Camping Trips guided teachers to choose from four domain indicators from the Personalized Learning Coaching and Development Rubric to narrow and determine goals for...
Building Self-Paced Student Learning with Google Slides
To support students and teachers in remote learning, the Personalized Learning Department at Dallas ISD provided teachers with targeted support on how to create self-paced lessons in Google Slides to engage students virtually.
District Distance Learning Progression
To support the shift to remote learning, the Personalized Learning Department at Dallas ISD created the Distance Learning Progression, which identifies the necessary system, leader, teacher, and student actions that are needed when operating in a...
Weekly "Navigator" Check-Ins With Every Student
Metro Nashville Public Schools created a new district-wide point-person program to ensure every student was known, cared for, respected, and supported