Craft Category: Strategies

Trailblazer utilizes strategic communications and tours to engage stakeholders and build investment inside and outside of school.

Trailblazer employs personalized professional development to support ongoing staff development.

The Next Generation Learning Coordinator is a district employee who supports innovation in schools across the district through professional development, coaching, communication support, and change management.

Trailblazer has created a strategic plan to ensure successful change management with the adoption of blended learning and competency-based learning practices.

Trailblazer transitioned to mastery-based grading, working across grade levels to define scoring criteria and align on practices for competency-based learning.

Single-point rubrics simplify the process of assessing student mastery, allowing teachers to easily and frequently give students feedback.

Learner pathways incorporate both pre-assessment data and student choice to determine the instructional activities students engage with in class.

During the weekly genius hour, students pursue a topic of interest, exploring and researching the topic to ultimately create a project.

Students engage in choice-based enrichment opportunities for one hour per week that allows general education teachers to collaborate in professional learning communities.

Flex Fridays provide Lovett students a self-directed opportunity to explore areas of interest and need outside the regular curriculum.