Craft Category: Strategies

Student calendars are adjusted daily.

Students at Roots take a benchmark assessment every 6-8 weeks.

Root’s seeks input from students on how they spend their learning time through one-on-one conferences.

Habits of Success teachers have significant flexible time available for individual student conferencing.

Students are assigned to both homogeneous and heterogeneous groups to support learning.

Students are assigned to learning groups for a 6-8 week cycle in addition to shorter term small groups.

In order to keep young students on-task and focused, scholars learn to follow their independent learning time calendar tasks when not told otherwise.

Once they demonstrate that they’ve learned how to care for their devices, students at Roots are able to take their iPads home at night and on the weekends.

Limiting the amount of time spent on any learning task based on developmental research.

Roots’ Habit of Success teachers lead independent work time, which allows content area teachers to focus on working directly with students.