Craft Category: Strategies

Specific days throughout the year for staff to meet and discuss data and instructional practices.

Playlists are used to organize learning activities, enabling student choice and agency.

Students are able to provide formal feedback each year through YouthTruth surveys.

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.

Students and teachers interact with data in a variety of ways, all geared toward improving teaching and learning.

MAP assessments have helped Cisco educators better understand students’ learning needs and improve their learning experience.

Conferences are an important part of blended learning at Cisco, as students and teachers work together to understand data in a meaningful way that can improve instruction for each student.

Extension classes provide extra time for all 6th grade students and specific 7th grade students to get the academic supports they need.

Students take pretests to identify readiness and prior knowledge before starting a playlist, and complete posttests at the end of a unit to show what they’ve learned.

Students are responsible for keeping track of their login information and, should they lose it, can retrieve it easily without teacher intervention.