Craft Category: Strategies

Chicago Public Schools’ Department of Personalized Learning led weekly virtual workshops to help teachers personalize and adapt practices in hybrid and remote settings.

Virtual student-driven learning plans based on personalized, student choice with embedded opportunities for reflection.

To support students’ metacognition as well as foster standards-based grading, teachers at Austin ISD piloted grade interviews with their students, allowing them to self-assess on a rubric and defend their grade through 1:1 conversation with their teacher.

To support remote learning instruction, Austin ISD developed curriculum blueprints that offered targeted, district-vetted resources aligned to priority standards.

Created based on community and staff feedback, Colorado Springs School District 11’s graduate profile outlines the eight core competencies the district believes all graduates need to embark upon graduation. The profile is frequently referred to as the core for the district’s various teaching and learning models.

As a part of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School’s Success Coaching, students receive daily, one-on-one check-ins from staff members who inquire about physical, mental, and emotional health. Every student receives a success coach who connects with them on a daily basis, and every week a case management team meets to review summaries of success coaching calls to discuss what supports students need — both from school and community partners.

Every month, the Colorado Springs School District 11 Superintendent hosts a Facebook Live session called “Beyond the Mask” to communicate district needs and changes and engage in conversation with students, teachers, families, and community members.

To support teachers in the shift to remote and hybrid teaching, Colorado Springs School District 11 launched a series of teacher-led professional development sessions to support the internalization of remote and hybrid teaching practices.

Colorado Springs School District 11 developed a teacher-led planning process for quarterly, cross-subject “big idea” arcs where students worked through six phases of learning with built-in reflection, culminating in a performance assessment.

To boost student engagement during remote learning, D11 provided teachers with targeted grade level relevant guidance to support students in the creation of cross-content inquiry projects that spanned three to six weeks.