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Supporting Teachers Shifting to Blended Learning
As a small district, Cisco ISD must be creative and intentional in how it allocates resources to support its blended learning teachers.
Creating a Culture of Revision
Using data, feedback, and milestones to build out specific revisions around skills students wants to gain proficiency in.
Activity-Based Collaborative Learning Labs
Learning Labs are subject-focused, asynchronous courses that provide students with unique subject options and opportunities to collaborate with their peers.
Graduated Student Autonomy
Students gradually gain more autonomy throughout their time at Bronx Arena, with the end goal being that they can completely self-manage their learning by the time they graduate.
Coordinating Student Supports with Facilitation Plans
Facilitation plans allow teachers to be proactive, rather than reactive, by identifying possible struggles ahead of time and implementing appropriate interventions to individualize the curriculum to each student’s needs.
Student Pacing Based on Content Mastery
Bronx Arena has built a competency-based model so that students not only get a personalized experience but are truly able to accelerate and/or slow down based on their learning needs, due to their flexible schedule and time allocation.
Demonstrating Mastery with Two Challenges and a Capstone
Each student is required to complete two challenges and one capstone project to demonstrate knowledge transfer and mastery of the course content.
Cisco Exit Emoji Explanations
Students at Cisco Junior High give emoji ratings to provide qualitative data each day about how well they think they understand what they are working on.
Bronx Arena Monthly Conferencing Form
Students complete this form to update their progress towards goals and do some pre-reflection, allowing teachers and students to dive in and discuss data and goals during monthly conferencing.
Using Data to Identify Growth Areas for Staff at Cisco
Educators and administrators at Cisco communicate across grade levels to collaborate and use data to improve the educational experience for students.
Sample Standards Map: Food Chains IgnitED Research Artifact
This sample standards map for Food Chains (TX Science Standard 3.9B) is used as a pretest in Ms. Scroggins' 3rd grade blended science class. The data are used to set SMART goals which drive students' learning.