Craft Category: Strategies

Collaborative long-term planning to identify credits students have accomplished and need to accomplish to achieve future goals.

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.

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.

Bronx Arena reviews a variety of different data sets to ensure that its approach is having a positive impact on student learning.

Given the unique challenges of their personalized learning approach and student population, Bronx Arena prioritizes data focused on attendance and output.

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.

Students spend the majority of their instructional time in an open class period working on their individual academic plans, receiving customized support as needed.

Learning Labs are subject-focused, asynchronous courses that provide students with unique subject options and opportunities to collaborate with their peers.

Students have their own top of the line device they can use at school and can check out loaner devices to take home as needed for academic purposes.

Using data, feedback, and milestones to build out specific revisions around skills students wants to gain proficiency in.