Craft Category: Strategies

Valor educators participate in similar social-emotional learning activities as students.

Valor students work through the Compass Phase System in a self-paced, competency-based approach spanning from grades 5 through 12.

Valor students participate in a weekly “Circle” exercise, during which they work to improve themselves, their community, and their relationships with others.

Students participate in “True North” practice to build presence and balance A great deal of Valor’s social-emotional learning (SEL) works

Individual, Relationship, and Community-based activities that students complete and often share through a communal practice called “Circle.”

Teachers at Valor have created a series of playlists built to review math standards and students work through them individually, at their own pace.

Valor determined two core Compass Habits representing excellence in each of the five Compass Disciplines. Students develop competency in each of these habits, which are sequenced through a series of phases within the Compass Phase System.

Small group instruction plays a central role in helping Valor teachers meet a diverse range of learning needs.

Teachers at Valor have created multiple options for student support when they are struggling with content.

Teachers at Valor use exit tickets as a quick method to check student understanding.