Virtual Classroom Culture
This daily lesson slide deck shows a virtual replica of a classroom to ensure consistency and build a strong classroom culture in a visual manner.
December 2, 2020
Tag: Socially Connected
Visual Virtual Classroom Background
This slide deck shares various virtual classroom backgrounds used for an elementary, bilingual classroom. It also includes a “star student” slide that the teacher uses as a background once a week to announce and celebrate their classroom’s exemplary student.
December 2, 2020
What is Total Language Response?
This video explains what Total Language Response (TLR) is and how to use it to better support students who are learning English.
March 24, 2020
7 Reasons to Use Interactive Notebooks
This website maps out seven reasons to use interactive notebooks in an engaging and translatable manner. Interactive notebooks may help teach students to synthesize their thoughts, take ownership of their learning, and even build communication between teachers and families.
March 19, 2020
Community Walks
This article by Shane Safir explores community walks, a key strategy used by Oakland International High School in their professional development process to allow educators to learn about their community based on the students in their classes. In the article, Safir describes the steps required to implement this transformative process in a school.
August 8, 2019
Family Night Presentation
In order to invest families in the personalized learning model at Rogers Elementary at Dallas Independent School District, the school walks through the why, how, and what of the model during Parent Night. By sharing the rationale for the innovative model, grounded in supporting students and their individual needs, the school ensures that parents can understand why classrooms look different from how they used to look. A version of the slides in Spanish can be found here.
August 8, 2019
Learner-Led Classroom Management: IgnitED Research Video
In this video installment of IgnitED Research, a series that aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice, we look at classroom management and how to empower students to co-create and drive management processes.
June 3, 2019
Mix It Up! The Benefits of Mixed-Ability Groups: IgnitED Research Video
Students benefit from working on a skill or learning target in small groups with others who are at different ability levels in that skill, likely through developing a growth mindset around the target skill and through gaining a better understanding of their own strengths. In this installment of IgnitED Research, we investigate the power of grouping students who are at different levels on an academic skill.
March 19, 2019
Dynamically re-group based on formative assessment
This strategy, created by Unlocking Time, captures how schools utilize formative assessment data to re-group students based on the goals of the activity and the needs of students.
September 5, 2018
June 7, 2018