Lessons from the Spring: Tips to Inform Future Distance Learning
[…] lessons into more accessible sections or add an element of fun by allowing children to utilize different tools, markers, or paper to increase engagement. Flexible Access to Instruction and Materials: Teaching and materials should be available asynchronously to meet varying family circumstances of time and schedule. Having instructional videos and learning materials available at […]
EdTech Report: Key Findings in Response to Remote Learning
[…] to facilitate learning and establish methods of communicating with students and families. LearnPlatform, which provides educators with tools to “organize, support, and evaluate classroom technology use, improve instructional decisions, and ensure compliance,” completes an analysis of the different digital tools being used by educators and students throughout the United States and gathers all of […]
Project-Based Learning Revolution: Principal’s New Book is a Call to Action
[…] collaboration, and rigor through project-based learning. “This book highlights the fact that true project-based learning starts at our core and requires us to transform our thinking and instruction from the ground up,” said Ching. “The book is a guide to implement PBL into the fabric of our schools rather than by fitting projects into […]
Students with Disabilities Deserve LEGIT Solutions: Lightweight Evidence-Gathering Instruments and Tools
[…] designed for comparability across schools for accountability purposes. These static pictures of achievement fail to capture progressions of mastery that would allow teachers to adjust and improve instruction as they go. The data ecosystem also fails to make data accessible and shareable at the student level. As a result, teachers, parents, and service providers […]
Organizing a Modern Edtech Stack for Modern Pedagogy, Part II: The LMS
[…] of this series for evaluating your student information system (SIS), the software we use in our edtech stacks are the tools we use to stay organized and keep instruction moving forward which are used by the largest swath of our learning communities. Specialists throughout our schools and in our district central offices may use other […]
Students and Equity at the Heart of School Redesign
[…] decided to focus their work in the Strategy Lab on piloting solutions to the problem. Kassi Hall, Multi-tiered Systems of Support Coordinator, and Amanda Koth, the Director of Instructional Design and Support, set off to understand the challenges more deeply and start to identify solutions through their work in the Strategy Lab. Transformation is often […]
6 Ways School Leaders Can Use TxLx Resources for Learner-Centered Summer Programs
With summer right around the corner, Devin Vodicka shares resources from the Texas Learning Exchange and how leaders and educators can use them to support planning and implementation of learner-centered summer programs.
Returning to School: Why Video Is Here to Stay
[…] recording some of your direct instruction plans for learners to watch as “homework” then spending class time diving into work and building understanding. Enriched Station Rotation. Create differentiated videos for each of your small group stations so students can watch a video that you created and be working on different review activities in their […]
Social-Emotional Learning and Whole Child Education: Approaches for Supporting Students’ Learning and Development
[…] programs, professional learning, or assessments. Schools and districts can implement SEL in many different ways. This includes explicitly teaching social and emotional skills, integrating SEL into academic instruction, and building a sense of community throughout the school. It can also include strategies to strengthen adult SEL, such as giving educators opportunities to reflect on […]
Framing and Designing the HOW
[…] After designing the why, we move to the goals, our what, and then set our path to design the how. This process is to define how we learn, our instruction, our assessment, and how we report on growth. After defining the why of what we do, our approach flows next to the outcomes, or the what. […]
