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Creating a Makerspace to Promote Project-Based Learning at Locust Grove Middle School
Discover Makerspaces at Locust Grove Middle School.
Teaching Practices
How do I set up a station rotation model in my classroom?
Interested in implementing stations and not sure where to start? This guide will give you tangible resources and research, with key insights and strategies around culture, space, and routines.
Examples From The Field
Cisco Junior High School
Cisco Junior High School is a small district school in Cisco, TX, about two hours outside of Dallas, serving students in grades 6-8. Cisco ISD has scaled blended learning to 3rd-8th grade math and science, and is working toward scaling across the...
Strategies
Designing Cisco ISD's Student Experience Pillars
Cisco ISD designed four core components of the student experience that it hopes to achieve through blended learning.
Strategies
Supporting Teachers Shifting to Blended Learning
As a small district, Cisco ISD must be creative and intentional in how it allocates resources to support its blended learning teachers.
Examples From The Field
Bronx Arena High School
Bronx Arena is an alternative high school that serves overage and under-credited students in grades 9-12 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Each student has a custom education plan meant to help them optimally learn what they need to graduate....
Strategies
Conferencing to Set and Review Goals
Various daily, weekly, and monthly check-ins to ensure that students are progressing through their credits, hitting their benchmarks, and on track to graduate and reach their long-term goals.
Strategies
Creating Small Group Instruction Opportunities with Content Specialist Teachers
Students are grouped based on needs and then pulled out – or teachers pushed in – for focused support and mini-lessons led by a content specialist.
Strategies
Coordinating Student Supports with Facilitation Plans
Facilitation plans allow teachers to be proactive, rather than reactive, by identifying possible struggles ahead of time and implementing appropriate interventions to individualize the curriculum to each student’s needs.
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Student Pacing Based on Content Mastery
Bronx Arena has built a competency-based model so that students not only get a personalized experience but are truly able to accelerate and/or slow down based on their learning needs, due to their flexible schedule and time allocation.
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Demonstrating Mastery with Two Challenges and a Capstone
Each student is required to complete two challenges and one capstone project to demonstrate knowledge transfer and mastery of the course content.
