This sample focus group script can be used to assist you in planning a focus group conversation. Using a script enables you to capture relevant qualitative data and serves as a means to take notes during interviews/focus groups.
The Data Visualization tab within this Google Sheets workbook can be used as an example for how you might generate different types of data visualizations.
This sample Google Sheet can be used to create a database and later conduct data analysis.
Gem Prep Online requires students to join two to three synchronous live lessons per week. This schedule maps out the live lessons per grade level that students are required to join. During the rest of the week, students complete coursework, assignments, and projects in Canvas, the school’s LMS.
Teachers at ASU Prep Digital create weekly playlists for their students that include a calendar of what they are working on each week, indicating when they are attending live classes and when they are working independently (referred to as “Sun Devil Learning Time”).
An educator, also referred to as a guide, from The Forest School discusses what happens daily in the school’s middle school studio.
Village High School in Colorado allows students to select their mentor teacher through a voting process. Each student fills out a Google Form and ranks their first, second, and third choices, and then school leaders match each student with their preferred mentor teacher as best as they can.
This podcast episode, named “When Student-Teacher Relationships are Prioritized, Learners Thrive,” dives into the story of a student at Map Academy, and how his relationship with a mentor teacher helped him re-engage with school and avoid dropping out.
Listen to more interesting podcast episodes from Map Academy at Education Disruption.
At Map Academy, the Anchor program provides each student a 1:1 relationship with an adult adviser, an opportunity to build community with peers, and a designated block of time each day to set academic goals and monitor student progress.
Students at The Forest School Online work with a peer partner each morning to set their daily goals on a tracker and create action plans for their “core skills” block. They hold each other accountable and support each other through daily goal progress checks and action-plan reviews.
