Craft Category: Artifacts

Roots maps out teaching standards each teacher should strive to meet in their classroom.

Roots offers aspiring teachers the opportunity to work under a Lead teacher for a year through its Teaching Fellowship. Fellows earn an elementary teaching license through the University of Colorado (fully paid for by Roots) as well as a living stipend.

The attached document provides further detail on the Teaching Fellowship job position.

Roots has a clear job description for their Elementary Habits of Success Coach positions so that their expectations and needs are set right from the start.

Roots has a clear job description for their Elementary Academic Content Teacher jobs so that their expectations and needs are set right from the start.

ReNEW has a network-wide Director of Personalized Learning to support blended and personalized efforts.

Roots ED and Founder, Jonathan Hanover, discussed his role and how he works with his co-leader to support the school model.

Transcript: Jon Hanover: So, it’s definitely us working together. Jill’s taken the lead on all of the tech stuff, and I’ve taken the lead on a lot of the kind of instructional and culture work. […] For instance, when we built out those apps that interact with Google Calendar […] Jill and I in a conference room trying to problem solve what it might look like. And kind of had this idea of, hey, why don’t we use Google Calendar and build some apps around the API? And then Jill ran with it, and built out what we have, which is great. And then, I do more of the kind of, all right, what does our human capital want to look like? How do we think about defining roles and responsibilities for teachers in this new model? How’s communication gonna work? What does rigorous competency-based instruction look like? How do we best leverage flexible groupings? That kind of stuff.