Craft Category: Teaching Practices

At the classroom level, to address unfinished learning, educators need to implement strategies that accelerate individual learners’ growth and progress, adapt to their differences, and build on their academic, social, and physical strengths. This guide shares ways in which schools and systems can support educators in implementing practices and strategies to address these needs.

Although long-term, systemic inequities ultimately need to be addressed, unfinished learning presents an immediate challenge. In the short term, schools and districts can organize their current systems around learner-centered principles and implement evidence-based strategies to meet students’ needs.

Strong relationships and communication with families (including parents, guardians, and other adults at home) is a vital and often under-utilized force for students’ ongoing success, especially when learning occurs in a virtual setting. Explore this guide to learn more about this and tangible ways systems are building these bridges and strategic supports for families as partners in their students’ education.

Learning virtually can create opportunities for students to work flexibly, self-direct, and access the personalized resources they need. However, learning independently online can also pose a host of new challenges. Educators can proactively address these challenges ahead of time and offer specific support to help students persevere and reach their goals.

Struggling with student engagement in your hybrid or remote classroom? This guide shares specific strategies that build student buy-in and participation in online or hybrid learning sessions.

Grappling with creating effective learning experiences for students in your in-person classroom and students learning remotely at the same time? This guide shares specific strategies that help ensure student engagement, ownership, and connection.

Looking for ways to assess a student’s mastery of new learning, no matter their physical location? This guide shares specific strategies to ensure students are engaging with and mastering content, whether they are working remotely or inside the classroom.

Beginning to implement remote learning and not sure where to start? Start first by preparing students to engage and learn successfully at home. This guide explores three key elements needed for success: helping students become self-directed learners, engaging families and guardians as partners, and offering more comprehensive whole-child support.

Strong remote instruction leverages key research-informed design features to effectively engage students in learning. This guide will explore three design areas – technology, pedagogy, and relationships – that teachers should consider, as well as factors to implement, as they create remote learning lesson plans.

Looking for ways to implement powerful instructional practices within remote instruction? This guide explores specific strategies that leverage varied modalities to effectively collect and use data, offer personalization points, and enable progress when working with students at a distance.