Deepening Arts Enrichment Through Three-Week Focus Scheduling
Modifying arts enrichment schedules to minimize risk to enrichment teachers also leads to deeper engagement in the arts for students.
May 4, 2021
Archives: Craft Data
IDEO Co-Designing Schools Toolkit: Phase 6 Showcase
This final phase of IDEO’s Co-Designing Schools Toolkit helps teams synthesize, reflect upon, and celebrate their work. Activities include storytelling to share insights and learnings as well as tools for engaging the broader community in conversation.
May 4, 2021
Setting up a Residency Program: The What, Where, and How to Make it Work for Your System
This research synthesis, prepared for Lindsay Unified School District Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Initiative, was designed to support systems looking for residency partners to ensure they are leveraging all the partner has to offer around the Five Domains for Teacher Preparation Transformation.
May 3, 2021
Rolling Out Centrally Developed Curricular Blueprints To Support Remote Learning
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.
May 3, 2021
Addressing Digital Equity in Austin ISD
Dr. Suzanne Newell, Director of Academics at Austin Independent School District, shares the steps that the district has taken to address digital equity and how it affects students – ranging from the use of one-to-one devices and community Wi-Fi hotspots.
May 3, 2021
Activity: “State of…” Team Mad Lib Protocol
Teams can use this activity to story-tell and reflect on a change management and/or innovation initiative. Teams are asked to use a “mad lib” style template to share the driving problem or challenge they were trying address, the solution they piloted to test it, key learnings, and the plan forward.
The template slides include a sample prompt, an editable activity template, and an example from a district team.
May 3, 2021
Hybrid Learning With a Focus on In-Person Time for Labs, Hands-On Activities, and Collaboration
For students who are involved in remote learning, Hopkins Public Schools provided authentic, in-person learning experiences for hands-on activities and collaboration.
April 30, 2021
Vision 2031: Adoption of District-Wide, 10-Year Vision for Innovation
Using feedback from multiple stakeholders, Hopkins Public Schools crafted a vision for what an innovative education would look like within the district by 2031, including the ideal portrait of a graduate.
April 30, 2021
Vision 2031
Hopkins Public Schools’ landing page for the district’s Vision 2031, which outlines the vision for an innovative education and a portrait of a graduate in 2031.
April 30, 2021
Districtwide Learning Framework To Create Coherence With Greater School Autonomy
Hopkins Public Schools shifted decision-making to be more school-based and used the district learning framework to provide guidance and ensure coherence and continuity across the district.
April 30, 2021