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Strategies
Collecting Quick Feedback with Emoji Folders
Students provide daily feedback about their level of understanding of what they’re working on by putting their names into folders with various emojis on them.
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
Creating a Culture of Revision
Using data, feedback, and milestones to build out specific revisions around skills students wants to gain proficiency in.
Strategies
Bronx Arena’s Master Schedule
By allowing more flexibility with time and physical space, Bronx Arena has created systems and structures to foster authentic relationships and inspire students in an open forum type model.
Strategies
Prioritizing Non-Traditional Metrics
Given the unique challenges of their personalized learning approach and student population, Bronx Arena prioritizes data focused on attendance and output.
Strategies
Providing Productivity Guidance through Tasks and a Banking System
While every student may be working on something different in class, each is expected to complete five tasks per day. This helps ensure students are being productive and identify early interventions when they are not.
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
Centralized vs. Decentralized Implementation: How do we decide what the district should hold tight vs. loose?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of centralized or decentralized implementation of new instructional models and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Teaching Practices
Build Internally vs. Buy Externally: How should we develop our talent and resource pipeline?
This guide unpacks the relative benefit of buying external resources and services versus building internal capacity and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Strategies
Cross-housing BL/PL under Teaching and Learning and Technology
How to signal at the system level that shifting to a more personalized learning environment is central to instruction, not peripheral to it.
Strategies
Centralizing Design Capabilities to Drive Decentralized School Strategies
How to support school autonomy in a structured way
