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Crowders Creek teachers present personalized-learning 'inquiry lab' during Clover School District meeting
Summary
Members of Crowders Creek Elementary’s staff described a teacher-led inquiry lab the school piloted to showcase classroom strategies for personalized learning; staff said the event involved classroom visits, collaborative sessions and volunteer teachers opening classrooms to visitors.
During the superintendent’s report at Monday’s Clover School District board meeting, Crowders Creek Elementary School staff described a teacher-organized inquiry lab they held this fall to model personalized-learning strategies for visiting educators.
The Crowders Creek innovation coach, identified in the meeting as Miss Randolph, said the lab emphasized “learning by seeing and doing,” beginning with classroom visits and including interactive Q&A sessions and reflective collaboration. “As the innovation coach at Crowder's Creek, my role was to organize and plan the inquiry lab that we held,” Randolph said, and she noted that 37 teachers volunteered to open their classrooms.
Staff described practical supports used at the lab: a color-coded map and schedule for visitors, table tents and welcome signage to orient guests, and guided questions to frame classroom observations. The presenters said the lab’s stated goal was for visiting teachers to leave with practical steps they could apply in their own classrooms and a deeper understanding of how personalized methods can empower students.
Crowders Creek participants represented a cross-section of grade levels and supports; the meeting introduction named representatives from prekindergarten through fourth grade, intervention staff, literacy and innovation coaches, a media specialist and the assistant principal. The presenters said the school enrolls more than 1,100 students and acknowledged that some staff were nervous to host visitors because the schoolwide personalized-learning work is at different stages in each classroom.
School leaders said the inquiry lab was the first such event at Crowders Creek and that organizers provided logistical materials and visitor supports to help teachers focus on observed practices rather than logistics. No policy decisions or budget items were proposed during the presentation; the segment was presented as an update in the superintendent’s report.
