Creating Time for Accelerated Instruction
Under Texas House Bill 4545, now updated by HB 1416, it’s required that students meeting certain criteria are given supplemental accelerated instruction, during the school day. This includes not only academically, but emphasizes their social-emotional needs as well. For schools, this will mean that time needs to be spent with each student, or perhaps [...]
Enrichment is Essential for All Students
It’s true, students likely have not learned what they would have in a pre-Covid, fully in-person school year. Standards of where a student should be, at a certain grade level, are defined. Schools that use competency based grading systems and or that are a high functioning PLC may also have defined what is essential [...]
3 Tips for Making Virtual Office Hours More Effective
Many schools and educators are using 'office hours' to meet with students and set aside time to give them the extra help and one-to-one communication they need. You may think of office hours just being something that college professors use but they can be effective for high schools, and even middle schools as well. [...]
Competency-Based Education: Rethinking Grading Practices
Competency-based education focuses on student learning and mastery of skills, not seat time. Many schools have begun to, or have already shifted to this type of model. Students can benefit from competency-based education because it's more flexible, and ensures that they really learn a concept. It's not based on a traditional model where students [...]
Time for Change: Building Buy In
Is your school thinking of adding a flex period to its schedule, but struggling to get buy-in? And how do you find time in the school day for a flexible period when your schedule is already packed? When schools are looking to make changes to their schedule, these are often two major roadblocks. It can [...]
PLCs and Flex Time: A Strategy to Meet the Needs of All Students
How can teachers meet the needs of all students? It may seem like a daunting task.Teachers really want to help students. But, kids all have unique interests as well as socio-emotional and academic needs. In this post we'll look at how a school that functions as a real PLC, and incorporates regular flex time, [...]