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Strategies
Designing Custom Curriculum
Bronx Arena creates and improves upon its own curriculum. This process helps them ensure it is relevant to students. The curriculum serves as a foundational component of individualizing learning for each student.
Strategies
Graduated Student Autonomy
Students gradually gain more autonomy throughout their time at Bronx Arena, with the end goal being that they can completely self-manage their learning by the time they graduate.
Strategies
Cisco ISD’s Redesign Process
Cisco ISD has been highly intentional about how it is trying to improve teaching and learning for its students.
Teaching Practices
How do I strategically instruct students with learning disabilities in a personalized learning classroom?
How do you ensure that your instruction is supporting your students with learning disabilities effectively? Have you looked at ways to crosswalk students' IEPs with your current Learner Plans, engaged educators to collaborate around strategic...
Teaching Practices
How do I ensure rigor and high expectations for the whole student in blended/personalized learning classrooms?
Ensuring rigor and high expectations for students with learning disabilities means more than just making sure they are able to achieve the same content goals, but also supporting them to reach social and emotional goals. This guide explores ways to...
Teaching Practices
How can strategic staffing better serve students with learning disabilities?
This guide will give you concrete resources, research, and insights on three different ways to revisit your current staffing models to better serve students with learning disabilities, including reinventing the special education teacher role,...
Teaching Practices
“Prix Fixe” vs. “A la Carte”: Should we scale a comprehensive model throughout our system or provide access to a series of independent, modular resources or tools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating a central “prix fixe” implementation model vs offering more flexible “a la carte” options and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Building Routines, Systems, and Habits of Mind Before Personalizing Learning
How to cultivate the underlying skills that will help both teachers and students engage productively in a personalized learning environment.
Strategies
Partnering with a Local College to Develop New Teacher Training Opportunities
How to build a pipeline of teachers that are ready to teach in personalized learning environments.
Spotlights & Case Studies
The Myth of Learning Styles: IgnitED Research Insight
This first installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on the evidence base which shows learning styles do not exist, and how this evidence can be applied in your classroom.
Teaching Practices
What are Open Educational Resources and how can I start using them?
Educators seeking to understand and use Open Educational Resources (OER) can use this guide to help them search for high-quality, rigorous, and standards-aligned OER.
