Direct Instruction for Academic Content and Non-Cognitive Skills
Teachers use whole-group instruction to address skills needed for all students.
Teachers use whole-group instruction to address skills needed for all students.
Students are assigned to heterogeneous teams for competitions and support.
To keep students on pace, teachers create a class competition that runs daily and by “unit.”
While Navigate Math is a self-paced course, the class always opens with a common learning experience.
The Navigate Math role requires comfort with blended learning as well as deep content expertise. For this reason, it is staffed as a specialist role across the LPS network.
Students receive “growth reports” after every 6-8 week assessment period.
Students can advance beyond “grade level” when they have demonstrated mastery.
Roots has broken down grade-level standards to more discrete micro-standards.
Roots teachers make use of a data analysis reflection template to help them dissect the data they get from their mastery assessments.
Roots uses NWEA’s MAP Assessment to measure students’ progress against national norms.