Craft Category: Strategies

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.