Craft Category: Artifacts

Digital Promise Challenge Map

This Challenge Map from Digital Promise allows users to explore big challenges in education – from kindergarten readiness to school redesign – and how they play out in different contexts. The tool also connects users with ideas and resources from innovative school districts and organizations.

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Guide

Explore this free comprehensive personalized learning guide for educators, administrators, and parents from Education Elements. These resources will help you discover:

  • What personalized learning is and why it is important
  • How to implement personalized learning successfully and the risks and traps to avoid
  • What personalized learning classrooms look like
  • What success in personalized learning looks like
  • How to scale personalized learning
  • How to communicate about this innovative initiative
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Open School Development and Operations Resources

Washington Leadership Academy focuses on the importance of always growing, staying open to feedback, and trying to improve the world. It has committed to sharing its operation resources openly. In this guide, you will find resources around:

  • School development and operations
  • Schedules
  • Academics
  • Staff hiring
  • Staff policies and procedures
  • Edtech selection
  • Student handbooks
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Algebra Studio Course Map

This example from Washington Leadership Academy shows a course map for an Algebra 1 Math Studio Class and provides a look into:

  • Course overview
  • Recommended fluencies for Algebra 1
  • Instructional model and implementation strategies for math
  • Modular playlist and a curriculum map
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Learning Design at Washington Leadership Academy

Washington Leadership Academy’s learning design process for student learning (think: the real reason people “lesson plan”) is a key operation in the organization. The school currently leverages a design thinking process in how it plans for, designs, and tests student learning.

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UnboundEd Enhance Instruction Tools

UnboundEd offers Enhance Instruction tools, a set of free professional learning resources for teachers and leaders that focus on the application of content related to the standards in K-12 math and English Language Arts.

  • The content guide in math aims to clarify what standards-aligned instruction looks like. Each content guide focuses on specific groups of standards and follows a three-part structure.
    • Part 1 makes clear the student skills and understandings described by this group of standards.
    • Part 2 explains how this group of standards is connected to other standards in the same grade.
    • Part 3 explains how this group of standards is connected to other standards in higher grades.
  • The content guide in ELA focuses on fluency and demonstrates how fluency practice can be integrated into ELA and instruction across content areas. It includes four parts.
    • Part 1 defines reading fluency and why it is important for overall reading proficiency.
    • Part 2 provides insight into how fluency can be fostered within thoughtfully structured ELA instruction.
    • Part 3 provides proven and practical activities, framed by the expectations of the standards, that can be integrated into the ELA classrooms.
    • Part 4 provides guidance on how many of these activities can be used to support fluency beyond the ELA classrooms.
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