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How can I help students build a strong foundation for self-direction in remote learning?
Beginning to implement remote learning and not sure where to start? Start first by preparing students to engage and learn successfully at home. This guide explores three key elements needed for success: helping students become self-directed...
Weekly Checkpoint Document
This document is given to students weekly to ensure they know their expectations for the week, where to go for content support, and what content they will be covering throughout the week. Included throughout the document are definitions, graphics,...
Online Agenda
Daily and weekly online agendas ensure all students – whether they receive instruction in person, remotely, or transition between both modalities – are on the same page and are set up for success.
Amtrak Car Breakout Room Teacher Slides
When implementing a variety of breakout rooms, it is important to be clear and consistent so that students know what to expect. These two slides describe the various Amtrak Car breakout rooms and cover the expectations for specific student actions...
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.
Cedar Rapids: Engaging Students and Teachers in Design
When Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) began a design process to improve teaching and learning, they started with a set of leaders from their Teaching and Learning team; all were strongly committed to the district’s vision for equity –...
Activity: Build a Diverse Design Team
When planning for change, teams make sure that they have a diverse, inclusive group of stakeholders involved in the design process.
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: Connecting Empathy Interviews and Blended 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. Themes from...
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...
Remote Buddy Projects
Grouping in-person and remote students together for small groups and projects enables a stronger classroom culture and community between all learners, while also ensuring consistency.