Locust Grove Middle School designs a capstone project for soon-to-graduate 8th graders modeled around ‘Genius Hour.’ Students select a topic to research and build expertise in, working towards a final presentation and using a predefined rubric to guide their efforts.
Locust Grove Middle School creates houses and related projects that align with the high school’s career pathways. Students in the middle school explore passions related to possible college and career opportunities through their house projects. Sample projects include: writing a novel, constructing a water tower, building a 3D model of an atom, and writing music.
Valor students use laptops at home to extend their learning and demonstrate understanding of class content.
Valor Collegiate Academies piloted a summer math program where students worked with a set of playlists designed to foster independent learning.
Valor teachers take time to get to know their students and understand their learning needs, later using this profile data to best group students based on their needs.
Educators at Valor Collegiate Academies use notebooks to help students organize their learning in math, as well as check student understanding and increase accountability.
Teachers utilize time during which their classes do not introduce new content to assess student progress and remediate skill gaps during Foundation Weeks.
Valor Collegiate Academies have Content Focus and Core Math teachers collaborate on a regular basis so students can make explicit connections between their classes.
Learn about Valor’s math-specific content focus class.
Students work with a bank of self- and teacher-selected playlists to guide their learning at Valor Collegiate Academies.
