Academic Strategies

GPS leaders developed these Questions to Guide Teacher Planning as “guideposts” to help teachers develop distance learning lesson plans that are relevant to students in this unique time, sustainable for those implementing them, and prioritize student equity and well-being. They’re designed to be relevant across all grade levels and subject areas, and applicable to individual or team planning. 

Use this organizer to develop a plan for bringing each component of your instruction to life in a distance learning format, with a particular eye to what existing practices will work well online and what will need to be adapted significantly. This exercise can be completed by individual educators, grade/department teams, or school teams.

This learning rubric identifies specific noncognitive skills and habits that supports students’ success throughout their education. Because it enumerates the full range of these skills, this rubric is a centerpiece of classroom learning and can be used in many ways, including at a Student-Led Conference.

This document scaffolds teachers’ long-term planning of content and skills in their classes.

This document assists our new teachers in their classroom set-up by identifying the key classroom structures and routines that are common and expected in our school. 

This document guides students in analyzing how they used their time after they track that usage for 1 week.

This document gives students the opportunity to monitor and then plan their time usage so that they can begin to manage it more effectively.

This document scaffolds students in the skill of checking their online grades and advocating for themselves with their teachers.

This rubric specifies strategies and habits to develop students’ collaboration and groupwork skills.

These stars provide an instantaneous positive behavior support to recognize and reward students.