Scheduling and student choice
…PLPs. Members of the Rutland Town School middle school team — including Brian Crane, Erica Zimmer and Melissa Theis — presented their scheduling and school choice project, “iLearn” at the…
Read more…PLPs. Members of the Rutland Town School middle school team — including Brian Crane, Erica Zimmer and Melissa Theis — presented their scheduling and school choice project, “iLearn” at the…
Read moreScheduling The continued movement towards the middle level concept has put tremendous pressure on how schools choose to organize their time. For good reason! The remnants of the junior high…
Read moreKeep students centered in the conversation When it becomes time to talk about scheduling you can often feel the tension rise as everyone’s values and beliefs are put on the…
Read more…back to the board. This was the ticket to cracking into a more creative way to solve their scheduling issues. Stop thinking assembly line, start thinking holistic experience. How is…
Read more…Because of Peoples Academy’s commitment to supporting student interest projects via flexible scheduling and to valuing students’ desire to take on challenges, and because these four intrepid designers devoted their…
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…end of the year here at Randolph Union. It’s like a huge scheduling nightmare. It’s worse than scheduling exams. It’s really hard to do it well because we want to…
Read more…section is about middle schools and structures, including questions related to teaming, scheduling, vision for schools, and magnet and charter schools. Each section includes a reading list of influential books,…
Read more…45 kids, and the collaborative work of the teaching staff doesn’t happen organically. The teacher roles, goals, and scheduling for the PLP block is carefully negotiated at the beginning of…
Read more…middle schoolers have the skills and intellect to tackle similar issues? What’s holding our middle schools back from doing similar coursework? Funding? Transportation? Scheduling constraints? Administrative support? Curriculum outlines? I’m…
Read more…their personal educational experience, and so still think in traditional ways about credits, scheduling, and responsibilities. They need to be able to “speak the language” in order to attract students…
Read more…scheduling, staffing, reporting, promotion/retention, and even the entire age-driven grade-level system! At the classroom level, though, the key lies in the bolded part of the definition. How can we assess…
Read more…letter head, signed by the principal), and begin their weekly assignments with support and guidance from the teacher. A note about scheduling Next, plan with mentors and students when the…
Read more…Consider scheduling times when students can build outdoors. They can use materials from the outdoors, or materials you have gathered to do design challenges such as these from PBS Kids….
Read more…and his fellow teachers could do to build back those personal connections with students. He and his peers decided to focus on teacher advisory. Start with scheduling PAML took the…
Read more…One Burke project. By collaborating with these organizations, teachers were able to create a meaningful launch to their Projects for Hope. But how did they do it? Scheduling the event…
Read more…discuss scheduling. https://twitter.com/CMSPrincipals/status/937770551770312705 The students shared their thinking about how Colchester’s teams use time, referring to the common 40-45 minute block of time for each subject. As such, they…
Read more…while others experienced minimal interaction. Last school year the 6th grade team shifted from an open gallery walk to scheduling the evening so each 6th grader had a dedicated audience…
Read moreInquiry Question: How might personalization through self-reflection, self-assessment, and flexible grouping and scheduling across grades 3 and 4 at Proctor Elementary School positively impact student engagement and achievement? After…
Read more…personalized learning: How might personalization through self-reflection, self-assessment, and flexible grouping and scheduling across grades 3 and 4 at Proctor Elementary School positively impact student engagement and achievement? Bright Spot:…
Read more…can adding personalization to project-based learning foster strong student engagement?” *Heidi Ringer “How might personalization through self-reflection, self-assessment, and flexible grouping and scheduling across grades 3 and 4 at Proctor…
Read more…kindness (credit to Brene Brown!). You can ask folks to mute email from 5pm to 6am unless emergencies/urgent. I have been scheduling email sends until the next morning instead of…
Read more…any whole-group instruction if necessary); Using a (familiar to students) Learning Management System (LMS) to communicate work and assignments; Holding office hours or scheduling virtual (or phone) meetings with individual…
Read more…get lost or misinterpreted. And video meetings have a few added steps, require members to both be present (scheduling nightmare), and eat up bandwidth. What if we could combine the…
Read more…child as a learner, and to learn what they may need from you in collaboration during this year. Here’s a sample questionnaire. 2. Be flexible in scheduling conferences School…
Read more…online both. Other aspects of accessibility may be less obvious. But for instance, avoid scheduling your virtual parent night on a high holy day (there are a bunch coming up)….
Read more…we are hoping to expand and continue beyond this year and beyond the pandemic. In the past, scheduling conflicts and transportation issues thwarted attempts to set up mentoring between school…
Read more…get more in-depth knowledge on how the educator is tackling Sign up for a visit using the online scheduling form. Indicate which site you’re interested in, and give us some…
Read more…self-assessment, and flexible grouping and scheduling across grades 3 and 4 at Proctor Elementary School positively impact student engagement and achievement?” Learning Lab reflections: Courtney’s Bright Spots & Belly Flops…
Read more…Consider how to make meetings more effective. Flexible scheduling Engaging learning doesn’t necessarily happen in content-specific, 40-minute blocks. Students also need more time. Flexible schedules are key to promoting hands-on,…
Read more…Excited) Corey Smith & Courtney Elliot, Proctor Elementary School 3rd & 4th grade Inquiry Question: How might personalization through self-reflection, self-assessment, and flexible grouping and scheduling across grades…
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