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AI Policies and Guidance
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AI Student Use Guidance
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AI for Teachers
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Curriculum
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Core Curriculum
ELA / ELD
Math
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Intervention Curriculum
ELA / ELD
Math
BeGLAD
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Strategies
Five Essential BeGLAD Strategies
- Graphic Organizer Input Chart (GOIC)
- Pictorial Input Chart
- Expert Groups
- Process Grid
- Cooperative Strip Paragraph
Sample Units
Kindergarten
1st
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Resources
Building Thinking Classrooms
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14 Teaching Practices
The 14 Building Thinking Classrooms Practices
- What type of tasks we use
- How we form collaborative groups
- Where students work
- How we arrange the furniture
- How we answer questions
- When, where and how tasks are given
- What homework looks like
- How we foster student autonomy
- How we use hints and extensions
- How we consolidate a lesson
- How students take notes
- What we choose to evaluate
- How we use formative assessment
- How we grade
Toolkit #1
Toolkit #1
1. What type of tasks we use
2. How we form collaborative groups
3. Where students work
Implement all three simultaneously.
Toolkit #2
Toolkit #2
4. How we arrange the furniture
5. How we answer questions
6. When, where and how tasks are given
7. What homework looks like
8. How we foster student autonomy
Implement one at a time, in any order, AFTER toolkit #1 is established.
Toolkit #3
Toolkit #3
9. How we use hints and extensions
10. How we consolidate a lesson
11. How students take notes
Implement one at a time, IN order, only after each practice is established.
Toolkit #4
Toolkit #4
12. What we choose to evaluate
13. How we use formative assessment
14. How we grade
Implement #13 before #14, implement #12 at any time you need it.
