Ann Ertl, Interim Director of Innovation, Design, and Learning at Hopkins Public Schools describes the district’s learning framework and how it is used to provide school leaders with guidance around decision making for their individual schools given the district’s shift towards school-based autonomy.
To support school leaders in building decision-making skills and autonomy around school-based budgeting, Hopkins Public Schools provided district-facilitated support to school leaders.
Ann Ertl, Interim Director of Innovation, Design, and Learning at Hopkins Public Schools describes the district’s shift to providing school leaders with increased autonomy around school-based budgets.
To support students with the greatest needs for intervention, Hopkins Public Schools’ central office deployed paraprofessionals to school sites to support independent learning and work time for whole-group classes while highly-qualified teachers supported one-on-one and small-group instruction and intervention.
With school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins Public Schools reimagined their use of outdoor and community spaces to return to in-person teaching and learning.
Video from Hopkins Public Schoolsoutlining the district’s creation of shared outdoor classrooms to support teachers and students to return to in-person teaching and learning.
Two second-grade teachers at Eisenhower Elementary of Hopkins Public Schools created a pilot outdoor immersion classroom, leveraging the outdoors to drive inquiry-based learning.
An article from Sun Post, which highlights Hopkins Public Schools’ outdoor immersion program.
A Hopkins Public Schools newsletter from October 2020, which highlights their outdoor immersion program for a second-grade class.
This example slide deck by Monterey Peninsula Unified School District showcases how they ran a student-led, district-wide equity task force to create programs and initiatives to advance equity across the district, especially as the community transitioned to distance learning.
