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Self-Paced Progress through Playlists
Teachers at Valor have created a series of playlists built to review math standards and students work through them individually, at their own pace.
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Students Pursue Career-Based Projects
Students complete long-term projects within “houses” that align to career pathways.
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Depth of Knowledge Levels
Identifying different levels of understanding for learning targets and challenging students to complete the higher levels.
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Using Pretests and Posttests to Identify Learning Growth and Needs
Students take pretests to identify readiness and prior knowledge before starting a playlist, and complete posttests at the end of a unit to show what they’ve learned.
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Providing Pacing Guidance with "Must Do" and "May Do" Tasks
Students work through playlists, which provide guidance as to which learning activities they must complete, and which ones they can choose to work on.
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Collaboration between Teachers and Advocate Counselors
Generalist teachers and Advocate Counselors co-teach in order to address each student’s academic and social-emotional needs in a strategic and collaborative nature.
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Creating Competencies for Mastery-Based Learning
In order to truly individualize learning for each of its students, Bronx Arena felt it needed to create its own competencies that align with its instructional approach.
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Students Focus on Three Credits
Students only work on three credits at a time, allowing them more time throughout the day to focus on each credit.
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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.
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Color-Coding for Ease and Clarity
By color-coding and organizing activities, students and teachers are able to quickly access and understand the task at hand across remote and hybrid environments.
