This month administrators from our Personalize Learning Environment (PLE) sites gathered to tour Francis Scott Key and Sheridan Elementary Schools with a lens of agency.

Our Guiding Question was: How do teachers promote increased student agency while reaching rigorous grade-level academic standards? What evidence of the Equity and Agency mindset (one of our 4 mindsets for Personalized Learning) do we see?

• In this walk, principals engaged in classroom observations at the schools and recorded notes to identify patterns and determine the next level of leadership work and program design for PLE. These walks were co-facilitated and co-planned with E'leva Hughes Gibson and Ben Klaus.
• Within our Professional Growth and Development Working Group, we had the supervisors from 4 different content areas (i.e., ELA, Math, Science, CS) who visited Jose Ortega for learning walks. They were able to draw direct connections between our PLE work and the content they lead, identifying next steps in our partnerships to design for alignment.
• Earlier this semester, based on a connection from the Cohort 1 assistant superintendent & director, we were able to assemble the PITCH schools from within the cohort to explore how PLE was supporting students in developing agency and ownership and to inform next steps at the site.

These photos were captured during our debrief, where we reflected on student agency within 4 categories identifying who the primary driver is (teachers, students, both), related to our work around Culturally Responsive teaching and moving students from dependent to independent learners. The categories we collected evidence on were talks time, work time, initiative, and technology usage.

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The Department of Technology is excited to announce that TypingClub is now free and available to all SFUSD students in 2nd - 12th grade in their Digital BackPack (Clever). What does that mean for teachers and students? Each student can go into Clever, click on the TypingClub icon and get started learning to keyboard! It is strongly suggested that students should have the opportunity to practice keyboarding in preparation for SBAC testing in the Spring. For more detailed information, check out the Getting Started Guide. Please submit a Help Desk ticket for any technical issues or requests for professional development at your site.