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Accelerate Learning With Meaningful, Targeted Assessment
Explore ways to accelerate learning by assessing prior learning, backwards designing summative assessments, and conducting frequent formative checks.
#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.
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.
#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.
#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.
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.
#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.
#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.
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.
Connect Computational Thinking to Computing
Help students make connections between computational thinking and computing.
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.
#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.
#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.
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.