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Social-Emotional Learning Small Groups
Create small groups for students to engage in guided and structured social-emotional learning while also building classroom culture and relationships.
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: 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.
Mastery Charter Schools: Vision for Personalized, Blended, and Culturally Responsive Teaching
As it started a design process to improve teaching and learning, Mastery Charter Schools first described their ideal future for teaching and learning for students with a special focus on the most marginalized. They envisioned confident, independent...
Monterey Peninsula: Vision for Mastery Learning at Scale
As it started a design process to improve teaching and learning, Monterey Peninsula first envisioned their ideal future classroom. The design team surfaced a compelling vision of mastery learning across every classroom in the district – one where...
Activity: Build a Shared Commitment to Change
When designing change, teams should start with a clear definition of and commitment to why change is necessary.
Activity: Get Inspired! Explore Innovative Schools
When designing change, teams look externally to glean best practices from other districts and schools that have implemented strategies to increase equity and resiliency in teaching and learning.
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: Connecting Empathy Interviews and School Culture
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...
Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
When designing change, teams make sense of input and feedback from students, families, teachers, and classified staff to identify what changes are needed and what those changes might look like.