Your Back-to-School Toolkit
Our free online course provides research, best practices, templates, and more, all at no cost, to help educators implement a Modern Classroom. And now, our Back-to-School Toolkit takes that work one step further. Your guide to setting up and launching your Modern Classroom is ready to download!
Setting up and implementing your Modern Classroom means rethinking your approach to teaching and learning - and that isn’t always easy. This toolkit provides the essential templates and tools to support you in implementing blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning with your students. The toolkit includes:
A lesson planning template
Best practices for instructional video design
A review of a variety of pacing trackers
A checklist for your Learning Management System (LMS) and classroom design
A checklist for your routines and procedures
A guide for communication with students’ families and caregivers
“Planning A Modern Classroom” Lesson Template
The guided questions and lesson planning template will help you to design blended, self-paced mastery-based lessons. Through backward planning, you can map out your learning objectives, state standards, practice activities, mastery check, and opportunities for collaboration that students will complete.
Instructional Video Design Best Practices
New to making instructional videos? Don’t worry about it! We’ve got the guidance you need to create videos that will allow students to master content more quickly as independent learners and be empowered to drive their learning at their own pace.
Pacing Trackers
Trackers are an important component of a Modern Classroom because they help students understand the unit as a whole and to locate their progress within it. In some classrooms, it even dictates who can work together or where students sit. But every educator has their own approach because every student, and every class of students, is completely different. We’ve collected a variety of pacing trackers used by real educators that you can steal and use in your own classroom!
Learning Management System (LMS) & Classroom Design Checklist
Strong learning management and classroom design can be a framework that spells “success” for educators. This checklist will help you to ensure that your LMS and classroom set-up is usable, accessible, and equitable.
Routines & Procedures Checklist
If the LMS and classroom design provides a framework of success for educators, routines and procedures provide that same framework student in the self-paced classroom. The right routines and procedures will help your students stay organized and on track.
Caregiver Communication Guide
What is the final component of student success in a Modern Classroom? Caregivers that are informed and able to support students with encouragement and accountability. In a traditional classroom, this is often just a dream, but we share how this can become a reality in a Modern Classroom.
If you’re excited to get started, consider trying the following:
Must Do: Apply for a scholarship to join the Virtual Mentorship Program to receive personalized support from an expert as you develop materials for your class.
Should Do: Sign up for the Free Online Course to learn more about implementing a Modern Classroom
Aspire to Do: Implement one of these new strategies with your own students!
This toolkit is your guide to jumpstarting your Modern Classroom, but there are many additional resources shared in our free online course. Additionally, our Virtual Mentorship Program can support educators in taking implementation to the next level.