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Teacher Example: Using Data Dashboard to Improve Instruction at LPS

Teacher Example: Using Data Dashboard to Improve Instruction at LPS.

LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS has worked with Gooru to create Navigate Math, a free tool any school can use. These screencasts cover strategies that can be applied through both Google Sheets and Navigate Math, though the latter is used in screencasts for demonstration purposes.

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Example: Goals for the Week at LPS Richmond

An LPS student explains her process for setting her goals for the week.

Transcript:

Student: Interviewer: What’s your name?
Student: My name is Janelly.
Interviewer: What are your goals for this week?
Student: My goal is to complete at least 12 assessments.
Interviewer: Is that a lot or a little?
Student: We only have this class for three days. So, that means I have to do homework too.
Interviewer: How did you pick that goal for the week?
Student: I want to challenge myself so that means I only do three in class. So, that means I have to do six for homework.
Interviewer: So, three in class today, three in class on Friday, and six for homework. When do you set the goals for the week?
Student: On Monday.
Interviewer: How do you do that? You just pick a random number.
Student: Miss Thomas gives us time. I look at my to-do list. I see what I’m going to do. I have to pick.
Interviewer: Can you talk about your to-do list for a second? […] Right now, or just this week?
Student: Today, just for today.
Interviewer: Did you put that in there or did the teacher?
Student: I put that in there.
Interviewer: How did you know to put that in there?
Student: I go to the unit four because I’m in unit four. There are assessments right there. I just have to do whichever is next.
Interviewer: Do all your teammates have the same amount of goals this week?
Student: No. We have different groups.
Interviewer: Do you talk to your teammates about your goals?
Student: Yeah. Miss Thomas gives us two minutes to talk about our goals.
Interviewer: Do you talk with Miss Thomas about your goals?
Student: No.
Interviewer: You just set them.
Student: Yeah.
Interviewer: Do you think she’s ever talked to anybody if they don’t set the right goals or anything like that?
Student: Yeah. She’ll be like you can do more. Push yourself.
Interviewer: Do you like setting your own goals for the week?
Student: Yes.
Interviewer: Why?
Student: It’s what I can do and I try to push myself.

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Teacher Example: Checking Homework Completion at LPS

How a teacher checks for class homework completion.

LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS has worked with Gooru to create Navigate Math, a free tool any school can use. These screencasts cover strategies that can be applied through both Google Sheets and Navigate Math, though the latter is used in screencasts for demonstration purposes.

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Setting Goals for Work at Home

A student in LPS Richmond’s Navigate Math class talks through how she thinks about setting her goals for the week.

Transcript:

Student: My goal is to complete at least 12 assessments.
Interviewer: Is that a lot or a little?
Student: We only have this class for three days. So, that means I have to do homework too.
Interviewer: How did you pick that goal for the week?
Student: I want to challenge myself so that means I only do three in class. So, that means I have to do six for homework.

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Student Choice of Homework at LPS

Overview of how students choose homework.

LPS initially built and tested their Academic Numeracy course in Google Sheets, and many of those practices have been captured as Blended and Personalized Learning Strategies. LPS has worked with Gooru to create Navigate Math, a free tool any school can use. These screencasts cover strategies that can be applied through both Google Sheets and Navigate Math, though the latter is used in screencasts for demonstration purposes.

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Student Perspective on Peer Grading at LPS Richmond

A student shares how peer grading through “team checks” works to help her get better grades.

Transcript:

Student: There are team checks. Team checks are when a partner needs to grade you. A partner needs to grade you in order for Miss Thomas to grade you. Does that make sense?
Interviewer: Yep.
Student: So, you have to go through the partner process first. And then Miss Thomas passes you. She helps me a lot by grading my writing tasks. In order for Miss Thomas to grade me on the writing task, a partner needs to grade you. So, you have the best possible grades.

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