Cedar Rapids: Building Space and Structures for Student Reflection

Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we provide relevant, standards-aligned feedback to students so that every student reaches mastery?”

The team decided on a solution that would give students space and structures to reflect on their own learning.

The team intended for this solution to empower students to set their own goals (in academics and beyond) and to prompt conversations between teachers and students about the purpose of the learning and the students’ progress toward goals.

This solution supports equity because it respects each students’ individual goals for and pace of learning, and it provides each student with the feedback and support needed to help them advance. It supports resiliency because it enables teachers to adapt their support of students based on valuable information gathered via the goal-setting and feedback process.

Type: googleDoc

Topics:
Student Support Programming, Growth Oriented, Actively Engaging

Sub-topics:
Comprehensive Student Development, Goal-setting and planning, Knowledge activation and reflection