A school in California built this student engagement tracker that made it easier for teachers to fulfill the district’s requirement to log student engagement. Schools can save a copy on their own drive and customize it to their needs. While this tracker is specific to engagement, districts can use it as a model for simplifying …
Designing an Advisory System
Springpoint provides five case studies to highlight different ways advisory can be structured and run in a school. The case studies are all pre-pandemic but will help schools that don’t have advisory as they think about various models.
Back to school: A framework for remote and hybrid learning amid COVID-19
Back to school: A framework for remote and hybrid learning amid COVID-19 provides a useful summary (Exhibit 5) on the “teaching value chain” to help guide hybrid learning models.
Six Case Studies in Hybrid Models
Consider using or adapting one of the schedules in the six case studies that Education Week recently published. The strengths and challenges of each model are outlined.
The Field Guide for Accelerating Learning, Equity and Well-Being
The Field Guide provides LEAs with tools to reflect on key lessons learned from 2020, plan a safe return to campus, respond to logistical needs of scheduling, develop effective communication plans, create continuity of learning, facilitate goal-setting, gain inspiration for what lies ahead, and more. It also includes a Personalized Planning tool.
Guidance and Support for Students Moving Into Postsecondary
One in a series of briefs aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic. This brief provides strategies to consider and to avoid for helping students transition from high school to college and careers. …
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10 Questions for Equity Advocates to Ask About Distance Learning
Students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, English learners, students with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups such as homeless students and students in foster care, were less likely to have rigorous, engaging, and positive educational experiences before the pandemic. There is a real risk that school closures will deepen these existing inequities in our education …
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Congrove Distance Learning Model
A distance learning plan that contains clear, concise language on: a distance-learning theory of action (page 2); Sample schedules (pages 3 and 5); Weekly individual learning plans and after-school support (page 4); Structures and operations for non-instructional staff (pages 6); Instructional design and delivery (pages 7-10); Learning community for school and family (pages 11-12); Systems …
Black Lives Matter at School – Resources
Resources that include classroom-appropriate lesson plans, guides on how to have tough conversations with peers and students, and more.
Family Guides: Supporting Learning in the 2020-21 School Year
Seek Common Ground and the experts at Student Achievement Partners have created Family Guides to help parents, grandparents, caregivers, friends— anyone helping a child to learn in the 2020-21 school year— understand more about what children should know and be able to do by the end of each grade in literacy and math. Other academic …
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