Craft Category: Artifacts

modEL Detroit

modEL Detroit, an initiative of StandardsWorks, is supporting Detroit Public Schools in K-8 ELA by providing both planning and delivering resources to support teachers implementing the EL Education curriculum. It has developed Powerpoint slides that accompany each EL Education lesson, providing educators with a distilled and more manageable version of the curriculum. Each deck represents one lesson, and it is divided into teacher preparation support and student-facing materials.

  • Teacher preparation slides cover:
    • Purpose of lesson
    • Learning targets for students
    • Directions for facilitating different parts of the model, such as independent reading and small-group blocks
    • Overview of module and units
    • Suggested lesson pacing for teachers
  • Student-facing materials cover:
    • Learning targets and “I can” statements
    • Student activities
    • Checks for understanding
    • Homework, where applicable
  • Example: Grade 7 Module 1, Unit 1
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April 4, 2019

OER Passport

This tool from Mountain Heights Academy is leveraged to ensure that all faculty engage in production, use, reuse, create, publish and share content. At the beginning of the year, every teacher receives their own tangible passport, enabling them to travel along their personal OER journey. As they complete each task, they receive a stamp on that page. By the end of the school year, each teacher will have completed each of the six tasks and will be ready to continue their growth.

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April 4, 2019

Reimagining Time in School for All Students

The Unlocking Time Initiative seeks to empower K-12 school leaders to adopt new time strategies that fuel student-centered learning. It provides support for educators working to improve their school’s use of time. They offer a free website with resources and case studies to learn how schools around the country are creatively using time. The site also includes a free staff survey tool to help school leaders learn how the calendar, bell schedule, academic programming, and staff time at their school can be leveraged to fuel student-centered learning.

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April 4, 2019

EQuIP Rubrics

Achieve’s EQuIP (Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products) is an initiative designed to identify high-quality materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards or Next Generation Science Standards. This includes a suite of tools for evaluating instructional materials.

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April 1, 2019

Developing a Modern Teacher Workforce: Federal Policy Recommendations for Professional Learning and Supporting Future-Focused, Competency-Based Education Systems

This issue brief highlights federal policy opportunities to improve and modernize professional learning and development for educators for competency-based education systems. Three policy recommendations are identified: diversifying pathways into the teaching profession, catalyzing innovation to redesign teacher preparation, and developing meaningful systems of assessments and evaluation. The brief also articulates specific policy actions for each recommendation which include: increasing affordability and institute incentives to expand and diversifying the teacher workforce, supporting innovation in teacher education to enable 21st-century learning and helping states build balanced systems of assessments to support 21st-century learning.

The recommendations describe actions for federal policymakers to enable and enact the vision described in the previous CompetencyWorks report, Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing, and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education.

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March 21, 2019

Mix It Up! The Benefits of Mixed-Ability Groups: IgnitED Research Video

Students benefit from working on a skill or learning target in small groups with others who are at different ability levels in that skill, likely through developing a growth mindset around the target skill and through gaining a better understanding of their own strengths. In this installment of IgnitED Research, we investigate the power of grouping students who are at different levels on an academic skill.

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March 19, 2019
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