How might I help my students be productive and accountable while engaging in virtual and blended learning?

• Incorporate Google Applied Digital Skills (digital video lesson modules including a Learn from Anywhere getting started cluster, lessons for Study Skills and Organization, Group Projects, Communication, and more)

• Utilize Productivity & Accountability learning progressions (setting goals, using calendaring tools, gathering data, monitoring progress, metacognition)

• Organize sprints toward learning goals with weekly check-ins with accountability partners (WAM sessions; replicate structures such as the 12-week Year; PBL Works Individual Project Work Report)

  • • Scrum processes: Weekly & Monthly Sprint Organizer

    • Accountability partners

• Create choice boards and playlists and set structures for students to make progress on must do/may do learning tasks

  • • Choice Boards, Playlists, Pathways...Oh My! (blog by Education Elements)

    • Playlist Building 101 (downloadable PDFs by Education Elements)

    • Using Playlists to Personalize Learning (blog post with tools and resources by International Literacy Association)

    • Utilize playlist-based instruction by creating playlists in digital formats or in analog by creating a playlist that can be printed in hard copy

• Lean into UDL-Aligned Strategies to engage students and to allow for multiple means of representation and expression

• Adopt feedback routines that become familiar for students in virtual breakout rooms or in asynchronous shared digital spaces (e.g., EL Education’s Praise, Question, Suggestion feedback routine)

• Use the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to differentiate driving questions to ensure learner agency is maximized

• Intentionally design the The First 20 Days of Virtual Learning (Education Elements)