Craft Category: Strategies

The Roots’ executive team provides support for innovation in order to focus teachers on execution with students.

Roots groups students in multiple ways over the course of the year to differentiate instruction.

Roots employs a variety of techniques to provide students the right type of behavioral feedback and support.

Roots students develop social-emotional skills through daily curriculum, reflection, and skill-development tracking.

Given the highly collaborative teaching approach, Roots teachers have several times each day for common planning as well as other opportunities for interaction.

Roots uses large group instruction daily during Habits of Success time, as well as during direct instruction.

Organizing physical space to correspond with learning modalities.

Roots differentiates educator roles by specialty as well as experience level.

ReNEW has dedicated resources at the network level to support blended and personalized instruction across schools.

The team uses a variety of software programs to plan instruction, asses and track progress, and personalize instruction.