Craft Category: Strategies

Student grades are determined through mastery quiz results, which can be improved upon at the student’s discretion.

Given students move at their own pace, teachers provide prompts to keep them moving and on track.

Mastery is assessed in three ways, one of which is a demonstration recorded on an iPad.

Students must demonstrate readiness for formal mastery assessment by first showing readiness through informal program assessments and a mastery demonstration.

Students are responsible for updating their mastery scores in their learning agendas, which increases ownership, improves update speed, and relieves the teacher of that task.

Each student’s current mastery score for any learning objective is visible to the class.

Students have several tiers of support to draw upon when stuck.

Students choose who they get to work with daily.

Students are offered choice over what learning objectives to tackle and in what order in order to build agency and engagement.

In order to accommodate individual and expected group-wide grade level pacing, the math class uses two distinct learning blocks daily.