Cambridge Public Schools surveyed fifth graders about their experience with five specific edtech tools that all elementary schools in the district utilized. The survey aimed to measure students’ levels of engagement, satisfaction, and adoption to see if each tool was effective in meeting their learning needs.
The LearnPlatform grading rubric is designed to be a grading protocol for educators to share valuable insights on the edtech tools they encounter on a daily basis. This rubric can be a way for educators to provide feedback in a useful and systematic way, so that educator insights can be easily interpreted and acted on.
Cedar Rapids created priority standards in the 2020-2021 school year in response to marked limitations on learning time due to the pandemic and a derecho. The power standards created clarity for teachers and school leaders on how to prioritize teaching and learning given the suboptimal conditions.
This resource includes suggestions on how to assess key strengths and gaps in both academic and non-academic areas and offers practical ideas for providing targeted support during the pandemic with a focus on two key domains: social-emotional learning and academics.
This was a guide put out by the California Department of Education and is meant to be a a guide for local discussion on reopening schools and not a one-size-fits-all document. This guide provides checklists, essential questions for consideration, and examples of best practices.
Dr. Suzanne Newell, Director of Academics at Austin Independent School District, shares how the district reshuffled its academic coaching team to support the creation of a centrally aligned virtual curriculum that all teachers could work with.
This video of Bob Ettinger, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment at Renton School District, explains how the district, in response to high failure rates during remote learning, surfaced solutions by inviting administrators, teachers, and students to rethink grading.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District worked with teachers to narrow their focus based on priorities aligned around standards.
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District chose to focus teaching and learning on the most important content for each grade-level and subject-area. They created this simple guide sharing the resulting priority standards and measurement topics for middle school teachers.
In response to the high failure rate with students during the pandemic, Renton School District sought to make changes to grading policies and practices — not only to reduce the number of F’s but also to make the district’s grading system more equitable. This slide deck, from a meeting with high school principals and district leaders, shares the background on the process they used to surface and spread solutions.
