Craft Category: Strategies

Bronx Arena offers a weekly advisory class called “Group,” which creates time for students to build relationships and community-like structures within their class.

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.

Cisco ISD designed four core components of the student experience that it hopes to achieve through blended learning.

As a small district, Cisco ISD must be creative and intentional in how it allocates resources to support its blended learning teachers.

Students work through playlists, which provide guidance as to which learning activities they must complete, and which ones they can choose to work on.

Teachers work with small groups of students to target specific learning needs.

Students set goals and monitor their own learning progress throughout the school year.

Educators often create opportunities for students to learn from each other in Cisco.

Teachers help students set SMART goals, an exercise that builds agency and helps students improve their learning.

Students have a large amount of choice as to whether they want to work with a partner or in a group and, if so, who they work with.