Creating Student Groups Using Google Calendar at Roots
At Roots Elementary, teachers schedule small group instruction with students directly in Google Calendar.
August 8, 2016
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Creating Individual Learning Playlists at Roots
At Roots Elementary, teachers create individualized playlists that scholars work through during independent learning time.
August 8, 2016
Roots Community Violation Reflection Form
Roots uses this form when students have violated a community expectation.
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August 8, 2016
Dovetail Learning: Toolbox
Dovetail Learning’s Toolbox is a K-6 program that supports children in understanding and managing their own emotional, social, and academic success.
August 8, 2016
Roots Habits of Success Standards and Progress
Roots Habits of Success Standards map out the expectations of students outside of content mastery. Teachers use this sheet to review student progress on all standards and then review it directly with the student in progress monitoring. Roots anticipates that students will take a more direct role in self-assessing their development as they age.
August 8, 2016
Roots Can Solve it Worksheet
This worksheet from Roots gives an example of how they integrate Habits of Success into their classroom practices.
August 8, 2016
Teacher Discusses Habits of Success Curriculum at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains the school’s Habits of Success curriculum, Dovetail Learning.
Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: habits of success time is actually in the morning during morning circle, and that’s when we do socio-emotional learning. And so we do the like, dovetail where we can give kids like a quote-unquote toolbox where they have lots of things to like, pull out of their toolbox, like their breathing tool, their safe place tool, their take time tool, their use your words tool. But that’s in the 20 minutes when they’re switching between breakfast and lunch.
August 8, 2016
Teacher Discusses Habits of Success Progress Monitoring at Roots
Roots teacher, Megan Miles, shares how growth on Habits of Success skills is monitored throughout the year.
Transcript: Megan Miles: About three – four times a year, the other coach and I sit down and we have what we call our habits of success. And so that’s about – 20 different factors that we rank the kids on. So, like on a scale of one through four. And so, we can track their progress over the year. I mean, a lot of that is anecdotal and it’s what we’re seeing but we’re also checking in with the teachers and getting a pretty good sense. I was like, very nervous about that anecdotal setup at first, but what I noticed especially is I’m doing one-on-ones is, I always ask kids what they want their goals to be. And then, we actually have the habits of success data worksheet that we pull up so kids can see sort of where they are for each of these – when you break them down to like, our power habits, it’s about ten that the kids are looking through and seeing – and those sort of things like, – I follow directions the first time. I try even when it’s hard. I care about other people in my community. Those kinds of values that we want to stress with them. And honestly, nine times out of ten, the thing that they tell me that they want to work on is the thing that they have like, the lowest score on. The thing that they feel really good about is something they have the highest scores on. So, it’s actually interestingly been pretty aligned in this – like, as we’re going through and talking to the kids about them.
August 8, 2016
Teacher Discusses Sharing Information via GroupMe at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains how teachers use a group messaging app to communicate about student needs and plans throughout the day.
Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: Another thing that I can do is – let their coach know. ‘Cause sometimes it’s not – sometimes a behavior is not the cause itself, right? It’s a reaction to something, and that might be something at home. That might be something that happened in a friendship earlier that day, and so I can also be like, hmmm, I noticed that you’re struggling, but I also have seen you solve this problem before. So I’m gonna let your coach know that you could use a conversation, and we have a group meet running where I can just like, let his or her coach know that they need a conversation. And within an hour or so, an adult will come pull them and have a conversation with whatever child they need to talk to.
August 8, 2016