Episode 75: Tools for Self Pacing

This week, Zach is joined by Emily Johb, Dave Read, and Karla McEachern to talk about a wide variety of tools they use to facilitate self-pacing in their Modern Classrooms.

Show Notes

• Presenting Self-Pacing to Students
• The Progress Tracker: Our Primary Tool for Self-Pacing
  • Auto-updating tracker
  • Karla’s game board, group tracker, and student-facing trackers
  • MCP Podcast episode on self pacing in elementary
  • Zach’s anonymized pacing tracker template
  • Emily’s student tracker
  • Emily's Gameboard tracker
  • Emily’s Teacher Tracker
• The LMS as a Tool for Self Pacing
  • Zach’s Google Classroom Classwork page
  • Karla’s Google Classroom Classwork page (Book Club Unit)
• Lesson Classifications as a Self-Pacing Tool
  • MCP Podcast episode on Lesson Classifications
• Daily Routines for Self-Pacing
  • Karla’s expert board
• Grades as a Self-Pacing Tool
  • Ungrading - Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan Blum
• Tools We Use When Students Fall Behind
  • Using YAMM to send automated progress reports to families

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