Craft Category: Strategies

West Belden uses existing facilities by locating classes next to each other and opening doors to allow students free movement across rooms.

West Belden offers teachers choice and more personalized professional education to model this approach for teachers.

West Belden schedules non-teaching activities back-to-back to allow teachers to have blocks of common planning time.

West Belden uses block scheduling for core content areas to ensure enough time for differentiation.

At West Belden, structures and expectations allow students to move on only when a skill has been mastered.

West Belden creates 90 minutes daily for common planning by scheduling non-teaching activities back-to-back.

West Belden offers customized student choice based on each student’s Learner Profile.

West Belden uses multi-age classrooms to help meet the unique needs of each learner.

West Belden connects learning at school and home by engaging parents.

West Belden has adopted an individual rotation blended learning structure.