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Cisco Junior High School
Cisco Junior High School is a small district school in Cisco, TX, about two hours outside of Dallas, serving students in grades 6-8. Cisco ISD has scaled blended learning to 3rd-8th grade math and science, and is working toward scaling across...
Designing Cisco ISD's Student Experience Pillars
Cisco ISD designed four core components of the student experience that it hopes to achieve through blended learning.
Bronx Arena High School
Bronx Arena is an alternative high school that serves overage and under-credited students in grades 9-12 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Each student has a custom education plan meant to help them optimally learn what they need to graduate....
Balancing Blended Structures and Teacher Autonomy at Cisco
Cisco ISD has provides enough structure and guidance to help ensure quality and consistency across classrooms, but also allows teachers to have autonomy over the instructional approaches used in their classrooms.
Partnering with a Local College to Develop New Teacher Training Opportunities
How to build a pipeline of teachers that are ready to teach in personalized learning environments.
Deliberately Creating a Culture of Change
How to address mindset shift productively when making a district-wide instructional shift.
Implementing a Flex Time Period
Learn about different types of flexible learning times and how they are used.
Not All Feedback is Created Equal: IgnitED Research Insight
This installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on the evidence base about feedback, and how this evidence can be applied in your classroom.
How can professional development support creating and implementing Open Educational Resources?
This guide provides an overview of implementing effective personalized professional development that supports curating and creating high-quality, rigorous OER curriculum, alongside concrete resources around competencies for educators.
Distinctive Schools’ Personalized Learning Continuum
This is a rubric developed by Distinctive Schools to help educators measure progress along various components of their personalized learning continuum. The four main components in the rubric are: learner profiles, personalized learning paths,...
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...