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Student Choice in Resources and Assignments through “Menus”
West Belden offers customized student choice based on each student’s Learner Profile.
Student Input in Classroom Layout
West Belden teachers often seek student input when redesigning classrooms.
Teacher Example: Daily Agenda Creation at West Belden
At CICS West Belden, teachers create daily agendas to help organize the different learning activities taking place during a class period.
Student Choice in Resources and Assignments through "Menus" at West Belden
Learn about how CICS West Belden offers students choices through learning "menus".
Teaching Time Management at ReNEW DTA
Students are given the flexibility to make choices about how to manage their time, with support from peers and teachers.
Sight Word Ninja
Sight Word Ninja is an iPad application that helps students learn sight words.
Roots Executive Director Explains Modifying Tech Tools
Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discusses how the school built customized apps to integrate with their Google tools.Transcript: Jon Hanover: the apps that we built around Google Calendar that interact with the API – the first one is the one...
Content Teacher Discusses Benefits of Habits of Success Teachers at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, is a content-area teacher. She explains the value of having Habits of Success teaching peers to support the content-area work. Transcript: Samantha Gambino: they're having one-on-one conversations about like,...
Teacher Discusses Student Choice at Roots
Roots teacher, Samantha Gambino, explains how choice is integrated into the student day, particularly during independent learning time.Transcript: Samantha Gambino: say okay, we have these four authors. Let's all choose which author we all as a...
Benefits of Student-Initiated Assessments at LPS
Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how students at LPS are able to choose when they take a mastery assessment.Transcript: Sophia Thomas: The biggest thing is they choose when they take their summative assessment. With this model, every single kid is...