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Interdisciplinary Projects that Matter
Partner with local organizations to co-define challenges. Ninth graders co-designed a pocket park with city planners, blending geometry, civics, and environmental science. Tell us your community’s pressing issue, and we’ll help you shape a project brief.
Offer choice boards and roles within clear milestones. A teacher team used weekly check-ins and kanban boards to keep teams honest without stifling creativity. Share your project checkpoints, and we’ll suggest a lightweight management cadence.
Create rubrics that track collaboration, inquiry, communication, and content mastery. Students presented to authentic panels and revised using targeted feedback. Drop your rubric categories, and let’s co-refine your criteria and language descriptors.
Personalization and Choice without Chaos
Flexible Pathways and Playlists
Curate learning playlists with core, stretch, and support options tied to shared outcomes. One class offered podcast analyses, infographics, or mini-lectures to meet the same reading standard. Share a standard you’re targeting, and we’ll sketch a three-path playlist.
Data-Informed Nudges that Respect Autonomy
Use quick checks to provide gentle course corrections, not surveillance. A humanities team used one-minute reflections to guide weekly workshop groupings. Tell us your favorite quick-check routine, and we’ll help you turn it into actionable nudges.
Co-Design with Student Voice
Invite learners to critique prompts, build exemplars, and refine timelines. When students co-wrote success criteria, submission quality rose and late work dropped. Ask your learners one design question this week, and share the response with our community.
Assessment Reimagined: Feedback that Propels Learning
Adopt short feedback loops anchored in clear criteria. One math teacher used audio comments plus one required revision, and errors turned into insights. Tell us your turnaround constraints, and we’ll propose a sustainable feedback routine you can actually keep.
Assessment Reimagined: Feedback that Propels Learning
Invite students to demonstrate mastery via debates, designs, prototypes, or briefings. A biology class delivered public health advisories backed by sources and visuals. Share your next unit topic, and we’ll draft two performance task ideas with audience options.
Assessment Reimagined: Feedback that Propels Learning
Collect work over time to reveal growth, not just snapshots. Seniors hosted exhibitions that moved families to tears and sparked mentoring offers. Considering portfolios? Comment with your platform or paper plan, and we’ll help structure curation prompts.
Technology as a Thoughtful Design Partner
Leverage AI to draft outlines, generate examples, and differentiate texts, then humanize with context and care. A team used AI to produce leveled reading sets and spent saved time conferencing. Share a planning task you dislike, and we’ll suggest an AI-assisted workflow.
Technology as a Thoughtful Design Partner
Blend OER texts, short videos, and practice bursts into just-in-time supports. A physics teacher used micro-lessons before labs, boosting confidence and safety. Post a tricky concept, and we’ll point to bite-sized resources that align to your outcomes.
Curate multiple perspectives and invite students to bring lived experiences into academic inquiry. A literature circle featured local authors alongside classics, deepening engagement. Share one text you love, and we’ll suggest complementary voices to widen the lens.
From Pilot to Practice: Making Innovation Stick
Pilot one unit or class period with a clear hypothesis and quick debriefs. A rural team iterated weekly and doubled student completion rates. Tell us your pilot scope and timeline, and we’ll craft a simple test-and-learn plan with check-ins.
From Pilot to Practice: Making Innovation Stick
Meet regularly to examine student work, refine rubrics, and share protocols. When teams brought two artifacts each, meetings stayed focused and energizing. Comment with your PLC rhythm, and we’ll recommend a meeting arc that respects time and impact.
