Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning

Element 2.1 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Models and communicates Models fair and respectful
expectations for fair and behavior. Demonstrates
respectful behavior to commitment to fairness and
support social respect in communications
development. with students about
language and behavior.
Seeks to understand
Promoting social
cultural perceptions of
Development and
caring community.
responsibility within a
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caring community
Some students share in
where each student is
responsibility for the Students participate in
treated fairly and
classroom community. occasional community
respectfully
building activities,
designed to promote
caring, fairness, and
respect.
Reinforces positive,
responsible, and respectful
student interactions. Assists
students to resolve
conflicts.
Incorporates cultural
awareness to develop a
positive classroom climate.
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Students demonstrate
efforts to be positive,
accepting, and respectful of
differences.
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Develops shared
responsibility with students
for resolving conflict and
creating and maintaining a
caring classroom
community.   value of all members.
Supports students in taking
leadership in developing a
caring community that is
responsive to the diverse
cultural norms of identities
of all students.
Students take responsibility
resolving conflicts and
maintaining a caring
classroom community.
Students promote respect
and appreciation for
differences.
Facilitates student self-
reflection and ongoing
improvement of the caring
community based on
respect, fairness, and the
Students take leadership in
resolving conflict and
creating a fair and
respectful classroom
community where student’s
home culture is included
and valued. Students
communicate with empathy
and understanding in
interactions with one
another.

Evidence I ensure that all of my Students are kind to one

communications are in a
positive tone and that I
show mutual respect for all
during lessons, phone calls
and emails. 9/21/18
another and understand that
differences are okay and
welcomed. 9/21/18
At this point in the year
students have grown close
to each other during our
LiveLesson time. So they
are kind to each other and
enjoy chatting with each
other. My school has also
been incorporating more
cultural awareness for
teachers so we can better
understand our students
and their needs. For
example, our State testing
period overlaps with
Ramadan so we need to be
aware of students fasting
during that time. 5/7/2019
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
This year I have spent more
time teaching students how
to respectfully interact in
our discussion board
formats. Students are
taught to respect differing
opinions and to not attack
the person. So far students
have responded really well
and have not had any
negative incidents. I also
create a welcoming
Livelesson room and do
not tolerate derogatory
language or put-downs
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Our class meets together

once a week for our
LiveLesson time. Students
are kind to one another,
and I always strive to
model respectful
interactions. I use students’
names and correct myself
when I mispronounce
names. There is a not a lot
of time where they spend
together so this is an area
where I cannot make too
many improvements
because we are online.
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Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.2 Emerging
Is aware of the importance
of the physical and/or
virtual learning
environments that support
student learning.
Is aware that structured
interaction between
students can support
learning.
Creating physical or
virtual learning
environments that
promote student
learning, reflect
diversity, and Some students use available
encourage resources in learning
constructive and environments during
productive instruction.
interactions among
students
Exploring
Experiments with and/or
virtual learning
environments that support
student learning.
Structures for interaction
are taught in single lessons
or sequence of lessons to
support student learning.
Students use resources
provided in learning
environments and interact
with each other to
understand and complete
learning tasks in single
lessons or sequence of
lessons.
Applying
Develops physical
environments that reflect
student diversity and
provide a range of
resources for learning.
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Utilizes a variety of
structures for interaction
during learning activities
that ensures a focus on and
completion of learning
tasks. 9/21/18
Students use a variety of
resources in learning
environments and interact
in ways that deepen their
understanding of the
content and develop
constructive social and
academic interactions.
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Integrating
Maintains physical
environments that reflect
student diversity and
provides a broad range of
resources, displays, and
artifacts that are current and
integral to instruction.
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Integrates a variety of
structures for interaction
that engage students
constructively and
productively in learning.
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Students routinely use a
range of resources in
learning environments that
relate to and enhance
instruction and reflect their
diversity.
Students share in
monitoring and assessment
of interactions to improve
effectiveness and develop a
positive culture for
learning.
Innovating
Adapts physical and/or
environments flexibly to
facilitate access to a wide
range of resources that
engage students in learning.
Ensures that environments
enhance learning and
reflect diversity within and
beyond the classroom.
Selects from a repertoire of
structures for interaction to
ensure accelerated learning
for the full range of
students.
Students participate in
monitoring and changing
the design of learning
environments and structures
for interactions.

In my LiveLesson room I Students have been

have a virtual sign that says
“All Students are
Welcome”. There are
always resources for the
students to access
Evidence
information about class
information or programs
such as AVID. 9/21/18
My LiveLesson room is a
interacting respectfully and
constructively while using
our class message boards to
discuss their differing
opinions various topics.
Students also engage in
their learning by using
online simulators, creating
graphs, analyzing data and
a variety of other structures.
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
welcome environment for
students of all backgrounds.
I make this known by
speaking kindly and
modeling respectful
language. I also have a
“sign” in my LiveLesson
room that says all are
welcome here. I also make
myself available to students
when they need me and
make sure that resources
are always available to my
students through our class
message board. 5/7/2019
During our LiveLesson
time, I want students to feel
included and valued for
their opinions. I make sure
to use students’ names and
to correct myself if I
pronounce students’ names
wrong. Being in an online
school, students can
interact with each other on
an even playing field,
students do not get to see
each other so they cannot
be judged or put down for
physical differences.
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Despite being an online
school, our students still
have many chances to
interact with one another
including discussion
boards, LiveLessons and
office hours. Students can
also use their microphones
to talk with one another
during our LiveLesson time
or to work constructively
on assignments. 10/23/2019
This school year I created a
class website to house
additional resources,
videos, Lesson recordings
and more. I think this has
been a huge benefit to my
students because they have
a virtual space where they
can go and find resources to
help them in their learning.
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My online students do not

interact very often because
we are online, but they do
interact with each other
through online discussion
boards and in our virtual
class called LiveLesson.
Both of these are
opportunities for students to
interact with each other in
academic conversations and
practice how to show
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
respect for others and
different opinions. My job
as the teacher is the
facilitate and model these
positive interactions
between one another.
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Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.3 Emerging Exploring
Adheres to policies and Recognizes and addresses
laws regarding safety that safety issues regarding
are required by the site, materials, student
district, and state. interactions, and the
Responds to behaviors that organization of the learning
impact student safety as environments. 9/21/18
they arise. 5/7/2019
Establishing and
maintaining learning
Explores strategies to
environments that are
establish intellectual and
physically,
emotional safety in the
intellectually, and
classroom.
emotionally safe
Students are aware of
required safety procedures
and the school and
classroom rational for Students follow teacher
maintaining safety. guidance regarding
potential safety issues for
self or others. 9/21/18
During my once a month in
person Chemistry lab,
safety is very important. I
want to students to work
safely and respectfully with
each other. They also
follow all policies to
maintain lab safety.
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This is not a huge issue due
to being an online school.
However, we do talk about
following evacuation
orders during our severe
weather unit and also how
to reduce risks while
Applying Integrating Innovating
Anticipates and reduces Integrates support for Shares responsibility with
risks to physical, students to take risks and the students for the
intellectual, and emotional offer respectful opinions establishment and
safety using multiple about divergent viewpoints. maintenance of a safe
strategies that include physical, intellectual, and
examining biases in the emotional environment
learning environment and focused on high quality and
curriculum. Engages in reflection on rigorous learning.
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intellectual and emotional
Models and provides safety in the classroom.
instruction on skills that
develop resiliency and
support intellectual and Students develop and Students demonstrate
emotional safety. practice resiliency skills resiliency in perseverance
10/23/2019 and strategies to strive for for academic achievement.
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establish intellectual and intellectual and emotional
emotional safety in the safety for themselves and
Students take risks, offer classroom. others in the classroom.
opinions, and share
alternative perspectives
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I have been asking more
open-ended questions
during our LiveLesson time
and asking for students to
share their different
viewpoints. During our
beach restoration research
project students had to find
different reasons why they
thought they were either
“worth-it” or “not worth-
it”. They had to include
view points from a
business stance to
environmental issues. They
then had to respectfully
agree or disagree with
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
engaging in online
activities like social media.
We also discuss how to
identify reliable sources
online when conducting
research on the internet.
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classmates. This was a
great chance for students to
take risk and support their
writing with evidence.
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Students are encouraged to
share their personal
opinions and beliefs in
addition to being able to
cite the scientific concepts
that they need to learn. I try
to remove my own
personal beliefs and grade
students purely on their
academic abilities and
effort. I also teach my
students about different
strategies they can use to
overcome difficult projects
or when they are feeling
overwhelmed with work. I
also make sure to talk with
my students about the
importance of taking care
of themselves and how to
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Many of my students are in
an online school because
they experienced bullying
or other things that made
them feel unsafe or
unwanted at school. My
goal is to make all of my
students feel safe and
welcomed. Students are
encouraged to take safe
risks in discussion boards
and during LiveLesson. I
also examine my own
biases and privilege and I
have led conversations with
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
my students about
examining the privilege
some of them may have,
this is especially relevant in
Earth science when we
discuss natural resources
and environmentalism.
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Element 2.4 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Focuses the rigor of the Strives for a rigorous
learning environment on learning environment that
accuracy of answers and includes accuracy,
completion of learning understanding, and the
tasks. importance of meeting
Is aware of the importance targeted learning goals.
of maintaining high Works to maintain high
expectations for students. expectations for students
while becoming aware of
achievement patterns for
Creating a rigorous
individuals and groups of
learning environment
students. 9/21/18
with high expectations
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and appropriate
Some students ask for
support for all
teacher support to
students
understand or complete
learning tasks. Some individuals and
groups of students work
with the teacher to support
accuracy and
comprehension in their
learning.
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Develops a rigorous
learning environment that
includes accuracy, analysis,
problem solving, and
appropriate levels of
challenge.
Holds high expectations for
students. Has an
understanding of
achievement patterns, and
uses scaffolds to address
achievement gaps.
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Students engage in a
variety of differentiated
supports and challenges in
ways that promote their
accuracy, analysis, and
problem solving in
learning.
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Integrates rigor throughout
the learning environment
that values accuracy,
analysis, and critical
reading, writing and
thinking.
Integrates strategic
scaffolds and technologies
throughout instruction that
support the full range of
learners in meeting high
expectations for
achievement.
Students actively use
supports and challenges to
complete critical reading,
writing, higher order
thinking, and problem
solving across subject
matter.
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Facilitates a rigorous
learning environment in
which students take
leadership in learning.
Fosters extended studies,
research, analysis and
purposeful use of learning.
Supports students to utilize
an extensive repertoire of
differentiated strategies to
meet high expectations.
Students take responsibility
to fully utilize teacher and
peer support, to achieve
consistently high levels of
factual and analytical
learning.

Evidence I want all of my students to
fully comprehend the
content through a variety of
means. I also work 1 on 1
with many students who
need additional supports or
scaffolding. 9/21/18
This year I have worked to
change parts of our pre-set
curriculum to increase the
rigor while still proving
supports to help students
meet my high expectations.
One example is a lab that I
created where students
I have been working to
include more cross
curricular activities for my
students. In science,
students need to be able to
read, write, calculate and
understand the historic
context of what they are
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
I have high expectations
for my students, especially
since most have been in my
class all school year. I hold
students to these standards
by giving detailed feedback
on tests and portfolio lab
assignments. Students can
correct work at anytime
which leads to students
wanting to revisit their
work and to correct any
misconceptions. I also
encourage students to come
to my LiveLessons to get
extra support on their
lessons or to sign up for 1
on 1 sessions with me for
more targeted support.
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follow a procedure at home learning. I went to an
to crush a can using AVID training recently and
principles of air pressure. they discussed the
Doing at home experiments importance of writing, so
was not something we have been including
previously in the more discussion board and
curriculum but I think it is writing assignments to
important for students to be support students in those
challenged and learn lab areas. 4/8/2020
skills. Students needed to
accurately complete the
experiment and come to a
conclusion about why the
phenomenon they
witnessed happened. For
students who needed extra
support we would do the
experiment together first by
watching a video of what
happens then talking about
our observations. I want all
of my students to
experience success and that
target can look different for
different students.
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In my classes, I hold my
students to high
expectations. There are
plenty of resources
available to them so for the
majority of students they
are able to meet those
expectations. For other
students, they need more 1
on 1 supports from me in
order to meet those
expectations. My SPED
and IEP students need
more direct instructions
and support from me in
order to meet expectations.
In cases where they need
more, I always work with
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.5 Emerging
Establishes expectations,
rules, and consequences for
individual and group
behavior.
Developing,
communicating, and Refers to standards for
maintaining behavior and applies
high standards for consequences as needed.
individual and group
behavior
Students are aware of
classroom rules and
consequences.
Evidence
Exploring
Develops expectations with
some student involvement.
Communicates, models and
explains expectations for
individual and group
behavior. 9/21/18 5/7/2019
Reviews standards for
behavior with students in
single lessons or sequence
of lessons in anticipation of
need for reinforcement.
Students know
expectations for behavior
and consequences and
respond to guidance in
following them.
During LiveLesson, I have
our class rules posted at all
times. These rules are
mostly to ensure that all
students are being
respected by their
classmates and that there
are limited disruptions. I
also will redirect students
who are not following our
chat pod rules. 9/21/18
Next year I would like to
the family to develop and
plan that will benefit the
student and allow them to
show what they know.
Often this will be a verbal
assessment, shortened
assignments or modified
worksheets. 4/8/2020
Applying
Uses multiple strategies
including culturally
responsive instruction to
develop and maintain high
standards for individual
and group behavior.
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Utilizes routine references
to standards for behavior
prior and during individual
and group work.
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Students follow behavior
expectations, accept
consequences and increase
positive behaviors.
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We don’t actually do much
group work, but during our
weekly LiveLesson time
we have high expectations
for our behavior as a class.
There are rules posted that
students helped generate.
This helps keep our virtual
classroom in order and safe
for all students. Examples
of a rule would be “Use
kind words”, “Don’t
distract others in the chat
Integrating
Integrates equitable
expectations, positive
supports, and consequences
for individual and group
behavior within and across
learning activities.
Guides and supports
students to self-assess,
monitor, and set goals for
individual and group
behavior and participation.
Students respond to
individual and group
behaviors and encourage
and support each other to
make improvements.
Innovating
Facilitates a positive
environment using systems
that ensure students take an
active role in monitoring
and maintaining high
standards for individual and
group behaviors.
Students demonstrate
positive behavior,
consistent participation and
are valued for their unique
identities. 9/21/18
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Students are respectful to
one another and can share
their interests with one
another freely through our
chat pod during LiveLesson
time. 9/21/18
I make sure to always
praise students for
engaging and sharing
during our LiveLesson
time. This let’s students
know that they are
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try having students create
their own expectations for
student behavior during
LiveLesson. But for this
year, I set the guidelines
and have them posted at all
times. I also go over
expectations individually
with students while on the
phone with them, these
include working daily in all
classes, responding to
webmails and other key
tenants of being an online
student. 5/7/2019
pod”, ect.
I also follow a routine
structure during our weekly
LiveLesson time, so
students know what to
expect and how to act
accordingly. For example,
during the beginning of the
students are allowed time
to free chat in the chat pod
but they know once the
lesson recording has begun
they need to be on topic
and following all rules.
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Most standards and
expectations revolve
around individual work
because we are an online
school. I work closely with
my students to help them
develop at-home routines
and schedules that will help
them be successful. We
also have clear
expectations that students
must follow while
completing work at home,
for example not using the
textbook while taking tests,
and following the honor
code. We have clearn
guidelines and
consequences for not
staying engaged with
online learning and/or
breaking the honor code.
Having parental
involvement is helpful for
enforcing class
expectations as well.
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appreciated and cared for.
The students who are
attending my LiveLesson
sessions are usually excited
to be there and are positive
influences on each other.
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As independent learners,
my students have to work
consistently to stay on top
of weekly lessons and also
for maintaining consistent
communication with their
teachers. I try to treat my
students as adults and to
respect them for their
efforts. Many of my
students are also facing
difficult situations in their
lives so I try to give them
empathy and respect and
they show the same back to
me. I really appreciate
working with this
population of students that
are in an online school and
I really value all of their
life experiences.
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Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.6 Emerging
Establishes procedures,
routines or norms for single
lessons to support student
learning. 9/21/18
Responds to disruptive
Employing classroom behavior.
routines, procedures,
norms, and supports
for positive behavior
to ensure a climate in
which all students can
learn
Students are aware of
procedures, routines, and
classroom norms.
My routines are mostly
created by myself since all
students are working
independently but they can
expect Monday
announcement emails from
Evidence me each week and that our
LiveLesson will be at the
same time each week. I
also follow the same
format each week for my
lessons, so they can know
Exploring
Develops routines,
procedures, and norms in
single lessons or sequence
of lessons with some
student involvement.
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Seeks to promote positive
behaviors and responds to
disruptive behavior.
Students receive correction
for behavior that interferes
with learning, and positive
reinforcement in following
routines, procedures, and
norms.
I have started to involve
students more in the
planning of each lesson.
For example, our test
review sessions are mostly
student led where they get
to pick the questions we go
over and then we talk about
them as a class. This helps
students remain engaged
and feel like they are
contributing to the class as
Applying
Maintains regular use of
routines and procedures
that are culturally
responsive and engage
students in the
development and
monitoring of norms.
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Provides positive behavior
supports.
Responds appropriately to
behaviors in ways that
lessen disruptions to the
learning climate.
Students participate in
routines, procedures, and
norms and receive
reinforcement for positive
behaviors.
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Students receive timely and
effective feedback and
consequences for behaviors
that interfere with learning.
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Students found to have
violated the honor code
receive immediate
feedback about potential
consequences and chances
to improve their actions.
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Honor code violations have
decreased drastically
because after the initial
offenses most students do
Integrating
Engages students in
monitoring and reflecting
on routines, procedures,
and norms in ways that are
culturally responsive.
Maintains a quality
learning climate that builds
on student strengths.
Promotes positive
behaviors and consistently
prevents or refocuses
behaviors disruptive to the
learning climate.
Students are involved in
assessment and monitoring
of routines, procedures, and
norms in ways that
improve the learning
climate.
Innovating
Facilitates student
participating in developing,
monitoring, and adjusting
routines and procedures
focuses on maximizing
learning.
Classroom climate
integrates school standards
and culturally relevant
norms.
Promotes positive
behaviors and establishes
preventions and a positive
classroom climate that
eliminate most disruptive
behavior.
Students share
responsibility with teacher
for managing and
maintaining a positive
classroom climate that
promotes learning.
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what to expect. 9/21/18 a whole. 5/7/2019 not cheat again. I always
make sure to involve the
families then this happens
because they can be a big
influence in making sure
their students are not
cheating during tests.
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There are several routines I

have worked to teach my
students with the goal of
making them confident as
independent learners. One
of the first things I did was
to show my students where
to locate resources that
they have available to
them- this would include
the message board and my
weekly email with
announcements and
important information. I
work with them to tell them
that my job is to keep the
resources up to date but
they need to use them when
appropriate. I also am
working towards holding
students accountable for
missing work or
incomplete work. Being
consistent with my grading
feedback helps students
know where they need to
spend more time and how
they can correct work to
receive a better grade.
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Student behavior is not a

big issue in our online
school, but I enforce our
honor code policy and
ensuring that all students
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.7 Emerging
Paces instruction based on
curriculum guidelines.
Develops awareness of
how transitions and
classroom management
impact pacing and lessons.
Some students complete
learning activities in time
allotted.
Using instructional
time to optimize
learning
Exploring
Paces instruction with
some consideration of
lesson type, adjustments
for sufficient student work
time and transitions to
optimize learning.
Students complete learning
activities and, as needed,
may receive some
adjustments of time allotted
for tasks or expectations
for completion.
are creating their own
work. I think this is
important to make sure that
students are getting the full
benefit of our online school
and that they are learning.
We also have norms for
turning in work, how to
interact with teachers and
how to interact with peers.
All of this together helps
ensure a positive learning
environment for all.
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Applying
Paces instruction with
students to provide
adequate time for
instruction, checking for
understanding, completion
of learning activities and
closure.
Students participate in and
complete a variety of
learning activities in the
time allotted with options
for extension and review.
Integrating
Paces instruction to include
ongoing assessment of
student learning. Supports
students in the monitoring
of instructional time.
Students use their
instructional time to engage
in and complete learning
activities and are prepared
for the next sequence of
instruction.
Innovating
Paces, adjusts, and fluidly
facilitates instruction and
daily activities.
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Students monitor their own
time, are engaged in
accomplishing learning
goals, and participate in
reflection, self-assessment,
and goal setting.
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Evidence The benefit of being a
virtual school is that we are
incredibly fluid. Students
can work through lessons
as they need to. They are
responsible for completing
their work in a timely
manner. They learn to be
independent and
responsible for their own
time. 9/21/18

Being an online school,

students are ultimately
responsible for their own
learning and managing
their time on a daily basis.
Part of my job is helping
them develop a schedule
that works for them.
5/7/2019

As mentioned previously,
as an online school students
are responsible for
maintaining their own
schedule and staying on top
of daily lessons. This year I
have been spending more
time helping students
develop schedules that
work for them and helping
them evaluate what works
best for them in this
environment. For example,
during my first phone call
of the year I ask students
about their study space and
what times of the day do
they like to work. These
questions help me help my
students get set up for
successful year of online
schooling. 10/23/2019
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
This is an area where my
school excels. We are a
very flexible program and
we strive to customize and
individualize as much as
possible. Students are
responsible for their own
learning but as their
teacher, I help them
develop routines and
schedules that will help
them get their work
completed. We also are
available to help our
students, but the
responsibility is partially on
the student to reach out and
ask. We work with students
who are anxious or don’t
like to ask for help, so we
work with them to develop
healthy ways to get help
when needed. 4/8/2020