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Help Students Connect and Reconnect

Discover ways to connect with your students, form relationships with them, and help them reconnect and form relationships with one another.

Best Practices 15 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Accelerate Learning With Meaningful, Targeted Assessment

Explore ways to accelerate learning by assessing prior learning, backwards designing summative assessments, and conducting frequent formative checks.

Best Practices 16 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#57 – The Role of Assessment in Accelerating Learning

Let’s explore how to reframe assessment to understand what students know and help them develop the skills they need, while using teacher agency to rearticulate education to positively impact your students’ educational experience.

Unpacking Education 35 min Resource by:

Accelerate Learning by Prioritizing Outcomes and Providing Just-in-Time Support

Explore a three-step process that includes identifying priority grade-level standards, determining gaps in prerequisite learning, and providing just-in-time support for unlearned prerequisite skills.

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#56 – Empower Students to Accelerate Learning

Join us as we discuss how to develop a student-centered approach to accelerate learning and develop opportunities to foster student agency.

Unpacking Education 26 min Resource by:

#55 – Connecting Students and Building Classroom Community

In this episode, we share relationship-building strategies that you can implement to help students feel safe and supported—ready to take risks and apply a growth mindset to their learning process.

Unpacking Education 24 min Resource by:

Accelerate Learning by Designing for Personalization

Explore ways to design a learning environment that allows you to accelerate learning by meeting the unique needs of each learner.

Best Practices 21 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#54 – Leveraging What We Have Learned This Past School Year to Reimagine Education Moving Forward

As we return to full-time, in-person teaching, let’s take a moment to examine strategies and best practices from remote teaching that we will continue to use in our face-to-face classrooms.

Unpacking Education 28 min Resource by:

#53 – Managing Academic Transitions After a Disruptive Year of Learning

Join us to explore how to plan for an effective academic transition where the focus is on bolstering student confidence and building relationships to accelerate learning.

Unpacking Education 22 min Resource by:

Accelerate Learning by Empowering Students

Explore ways to accelerate learning by empowering students with key study skills and then by exposing them to rich, rigorous learning experiences where they can achieve success by applying these important skills.

Best Practices 18 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Connect Computational Thinking to Computing

Help students make connections between computational thinking and computing.

Best Practices 15 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Accelerate Learning by Making Connections: Build Trust Through Relationships, Community, and Connection

Explore four ways to accelerate learning through classroom connections: connecting teacher to student, student to student, teacher to family, and student to learning.

Best Practices 22 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#50 – Insights from the Class of 2021: A Conversation with High School Graduate, Andrew Hoggard

Let’s celebrate our students by sharing the story of a graduating senior from Washington, Andrew Hoggard. Andrew describes his senior year of high school and how he navigated remote, hybrid, and face-to-face learning.

Unpacking Education 18 min Resource by:

#49 – Teacher Insights and Reflections: Taking Lessons Learned From Pandemic Teaching Into a New School Year

Let’s celebrate teachers by sharing the stories you submitted about your experiences during this extraordinary year of teaching and learning.

Unpacking Education 24 min Resource by:

Accelerate Learning by Focusing on Assets and Opportunities, Not Deficits

Explore an introduction to accelerated learning, including the dangers of a deficit mindset and the need to accelerate rather than remediate.

Best Practices 12 min Grades K-12 Resource by: