Craft Category: Strategies

Advocate counselors provide social support to students throughout the day. Each class (or Arena) is staffed with a counselor.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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