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Toolkit
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Develop
Customize Amplify
learner
the learner
meta-
experience voice
cognition
Leverage Technology
I use technology to lessen the burden of
tracking student progress, find materials,
engage learners in different ways, and
offer academic supports.
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Assess Formatively
Throughout the learning process provide checks for understandings. This can be
very informal through digital games such as Kahoot or exit tickets. It can also be
a more formal quiz or draft of an essay before the summative assessment.
Ensure that the formative assessments are given with time for you and students
to do something with the information that the assessments give.
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📖 Formative assessment strategies
Be sure to create time and space for learners to both track and reflect on their
learning.
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📖 Make progress visible through student data-tracking
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🧰 Individualized Learning Plan Template with Learner Profile
Group students
Using formative assessment data you can group students based on
performance to personalize instruction. It is important to continue to reevaluate
these groups and move students around based on continuous formative
assessment. You can also group students based on interest instead of
performance on formative assessments. For example, students could select a
text that they want to read and group members could all be performing at
different levels of reading comprehension.
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📖 Small-group instruction
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📖 Choice board design
📖 Create choice boards
📖 Must Do & May Do Lists
🧰 Choice Board Examples and Templates
Ensure flexibility in learning process, product, or pace 12
I scaffold, customize whenever possible, and provide adequate interventions to appropriately
stretch each learner
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📖 🎧 Using playlists to differentiate the pace
📖 🎧 Self-paced classroom
This ensures the teacher can work with a small-group or 1-1 uninterrupted.
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📖 Students as teachers
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📖 Classroom Eye Candy
Co-Construct Curriculum
Share the design process of learning experiences with your students. Ask your
students what they want to learn about, encourage them to ideate ways they
could show what they know, or invite them to build their own learning playlist.
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📖 Getting started with co-construction
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📖 Assessment choice boards
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🧰 Harvard’s Project Implicit–Implicit Bias Test
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🖥 Understand the Identity, language and culture of each student
📖 4-part system for getting to know your students
📖 🎧 Dialogue journals
🧰 Where We’re From Classroom Poem Activity
📖 Cross the Line Questions
📖 35 Collaborative Art Projects That Bring Out Everyone’s Creative Side
Create responsive learning experiences 21
I recognize and integrate knowledge of individual learners, diverse cultures, and the
community context in developing materials and pedagogy to ensure inclusive
learning environments that enable each learner to meet rigorous standards.
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📖 Audit your classroom library
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📖 3 Tips to make any lesson more culturally responsive
📺What is UDL?
🖥UDL Guidelines
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Leverage Technology
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I use technology to lessen the burden of tracking student progress, find
materials, engage learners in different ways, and offer academic supports
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🧰 Use Pear Deck or Nearpod to interact with students in a live lesson
Assess Digitally
Assessing digitally provides you and students immediate (or faster) feedback
and can be easily found in the future. It also provides for a variety of methods or
assessment and feedback such as voice or video. You can also play cooperative
and competitive games that provide students with immediate answers while also
creating a fun environment for reviewing discrete knowledge (using Kahoot,
Quizziz, Quizlet Live, Gimkit, etc).
Resources students.
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📖 Create word cloud or polls with mentimeter or polleverywhere
Empower learners
I help learners build their agency,
determine priorities, and develop
skills to choose between competing
interests.
Develop
learner Encourage
meta- self-regulation
cognition I develop learners’ abilities to
self-reflect and self-regulate via
strategies such as goal setting,
self-assessment and self-pacing.
Competencies
Click on a
competency of
interest to find Highlight the process
specific strategies. of thinking
I use modeling, rehearsal, and
feedback techniques that highlight
the processes of thinking, rather than
focusing exclusively on the products
of thinking.
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Empower learners
Empower learners 29
I help learners build their agency, determine priorities, and develop skills to choose
between competing interests.
Student jobs create a sense of ownership for the students and empower them to
take on responsibilities that make the learning community function.
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📺 Team jobs
📖 How to Create Jobs in Middle School Math
📖 41 Classroom jobs
📖 Essential Middle School Classroom Jobs
📖 Classroom Jobs in the Secondary Classroom
Empower learners 30
I help learners build their agency, determine priorities, and develop skills to choose
between competing interests.
Buckets are
color-coded
based on setting &
numbered based on
level. For example,
yellow or red buckets
are independent
work.
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📖 Is your classroom organized for learning?
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📖 Impact of flexible seating
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📖 Help students schedule their own time
Encourage self-regulation
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I develop learners’ abilities to self-reflect and self-regulate via strategies such as
goal setting, self-assessment and self-pacing.
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📖 Teach students about Growth Mindset
📖 Allow for productive struggle
🧰 Zones of Regulation framework and reflection
📖 Grounding and Calming Techniques
📖 Teaching self-regulation
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I develop learners’ abilities to self-reflect and self-regulate via strategies such as
goal setting, self-assessment and self-pacing.
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📖 🧰 WOOP Goal Setting
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📖 Self reflection during a project
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📖 Responsive Classroom Tools: Self-Assessment
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📺 Reciprocal teaching
📺 Think Alouds
📖 Read Alouds
Document Thinking
Encourage learners to document how they arrived at an answer in both
independent and collaborative settings. Have students jot down their strategy or
thought process. Honor that different strategies or approaches work for different
people. After formative or summative assessment, consider having students
review and document their previous and current thinking.
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🖥 Use Explain Everything for students to record their thinking while
working
📖 Mind maps
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Engage learners as
problem-solvers
I provide opportunities for learners to
contribute to classroom or
school-based decision-making
processes
Amplify
student Solicit feedback
I solicit my learners’ feedback about
voice their classroom experience and use it
to improve and iterate
Competencies
Click on a
competency of Promote Equity of
interest to find Voice
specific strategies. I use protocols and methods to
ensure all student voices are heard
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Engage learners as
problem-solvers
Engage learners as problem-solvers 43
I provide opportunities for learners to contribute to classroom or school-based decision-making
processes
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🖥 Liberatory Design
🖥 Design Thinking
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📺 Treatment Agreement intro video
📖 Classroom Constitution
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I provide opportunities for learners to contribute to classroom or school-based decision-making
processes
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🖥 Student-Led Conferences: Resources for Educators
Solicit Feedback
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Solicit feedback
I solicit my learners’ feedback about their classroom experience and use it to improve and iterate
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📖 10 Ideas for raising student voice
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📺 What are Empathy Interviews and Why Do Them?
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📖 Set up an equitable air space
🧰 Discussion protocols
🖥 Socratic seminar
🧰 wheel of names
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