From Remediation to Acceleration: Mindset Shifts for Just-in-Time Learning

This workshop helps educators shift from a remediation mindset—where instruction focuses on filling gaps first—to an acceleration mindset that prioritizes immediate engagement with grade-level content. Participants explore research showing that targeted, just-in-time supports improve equity, achievement, and student engagement. The session emphasizes strategies for identifying prerequisite skills, designing meaningful pre-assessments, and using data to guide instructional moves that maintain rigor while addressing learner needs. Teachers also build planning tools to connect priority standards to prerequisite skills, ensuring all students move forward productively.

• Overreliance on remediation that delays access to grade-level content and slows progress.
  
  
• Lack of effective systems for identifying and addressing prerequisite skills in real time.
  
  
• Missed opportunities to use student work and assessment data for immediate, responsive instructional decisions.

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1. Mindset and Framework Shift: Participants will learn to adopt an acceleration mindset, planning instruction that assumes all students can engage in grade-level work while addressing gaps through timely supports rather than extended remediation.
   
   
2. Practical Assessment Tools: Educators will develop skills in designing pre-assessments, rubrics, and data analysis strategies that identify prerequisite needs without lowering expectations. This includes learning to interpret student work quickly and apply just-in-time instructional moves.
   
   
3. Instructional Planning for Equity: Teachers will practice creating cross-reference resources that link priority standards to prerequisite skills, and use closure strategies that reinforce learning, address misconceptions, and foster metacognition—ensuring equitable access to grade-level success for all students.