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Inside the Field Guide, you’ll find step-by-step strategies, coaching videos, classroom examples, checklists, and level-up pathways that help teachers confidently implement blended learning—without feeling overwhelmed.
Overview of the Field GuideThe 12 Elements of Student Engagement and Ownership grew out of the core practices of blended learning—students working at their own pace, place, and path through data-driven small groups. After years of coaching schools through the Three Phases of Blended Learning, we realized teachers needed a more practical, step-by-step way to implement these strategies without feeling overwhelmed. The Field Guide organizes the work into manageable, classroom-ready elements that support teacher growth, adaptability, and personalized professional development—no matter the school, experience level, or instructional style.
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The Belt Levels Help Teachers Implement at Their Own Pace
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White → training wheels
Yellow → classroom routines Orange/Green → data-driven learning Blue → project-based learning Purple → personalized learning |
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The 12 Elements of
Student Engagement and Ownership
Small-Group Instruction: Breaking apart the large group instruction into learning studios where the teacher differentiates the instruction while other students work on independent work, relearn the standards through Digital Content, and small projects reinforce the standards.
Data-Driven Learning Environments: Utilizing the formative, summative, and online digital data to differentiate the learning studio activities.
Checklist: Designing student ownership opportunities within the classroom that allow the students to pick a variety of learning tasks that align with the daily “I Can Statements.”
Student Choice and Ownership: Employ creativity choice boards within the hands-on learning studio that promotes online and offline projects that fit the student learning styles.
Pace: Recognize that all students work faster and slower on mastering the learning objectives. The students will be able to work, collaborate, create, and express their understanding of the content within a given time frame.
Place: Prepare online and offline learning activities that align with the small group instruction studio.
Path: Allow the students to explore the checklist and prioritize the learning studios they want to complete first, second, and third.
Digital Content Studio: Construct online learning opportunities that align with the learning objectives and provide quality data that can be used to drive small group instruction with the awareness of the amount of screen time within one class period.
Independent Practice Studio: Students can practice, explore, and dive deeper into the learning objectives while the teacher is conducting a small group studio.
Hands-on Learning with the inclusion of Project-Based Learning: Explore or demonstrate the understanding of the learning objectives through collaboration, creativity, communication, or critical thinking application projects.
Organization: Designing a classroom environment that provides organizational methods that allow the students to work through the content at their own pace, place, and path.
Directions: Increase student ownership through voice, visual, and virtual links that showcase the steps the students need to take to complete the given task.
Data-Driven Learning Environments: Utilizing the formative, summative, and online digital data to differentiate the learning studio activities.
Checklist: Designing student ownership opportunities within the classroom that allow the students to pick a variety of learning tasks that align with the daily “I Can Statements.”
Student Choice and Ownership: Employ creativity choice boards within the hands-on learning studio that promotes online and offline projects that fit the student learning styles.
Pace: Recognize that all students work faster and slower on mastering the learning objectives. The students will be able to work, collaborate, create, and express their understanding of the content within a given time frame.
Place: Prepare online and offline learning activities that align with the small group instruction studio.
Path: Allow the students to explore the checklist and prioritize the learning studios they want to complete first, second, and third.
Digital Content Studio: Construct online learning opportunities that align with the learning objectives and provide quality data that can be used to drive small group instruction with the awareness of the amount of screen time within one class period.
Independent Practice Studio: Students can practice, explore, and dive deeper into the learning objectives while the teacher is conducting a small group studio.
Hands-on Learning with the inclusion of Project-Based Learning: Explore or demonstrate the understanding of the learning objectives through collaboration, creativity, communication, or critical thinking application projects.
Organization: Designing a classroom environment that provides organizational methods that allow the students to work through the content at their own pace, place, and path.
Directions: Increase student ownership through voice, visual, and virtual links that showcase the steps the students need to take to complete the given task.
The Field Guide
The Field Guide for the 12 Elements of Student Engagement and Ownership Infused in Blended Learning Studios is designed for the coaches, administrators, and classroom teachers who enjoy seeing the layout and progression of how each element increases student ownership in written form. The step-by-step guide provides suggested strategies for classroom teachers to implement, visual descriptions of the strategies, and titles for the coaching videos found on dynaguide.org.