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Using Unique Data Sets that Inform Teaching and Learning
Bronx Arena reviews a variety of different data sets to ensure that its approach is having a positive impact on student learning.
Providing Productivity Guidance through Tasks and a Banking System
While every student may be working on something different in class, each is expected to complete five tasks per day. This helps ensure students are being productive and identify early interventions when they are not.
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.
Senior Portfolios
Students must complete a senior portfolio before graduation, which are designed to demonstrate students’ ability to learn on their own.
Co-Creating Graduation Plans with Credit Mapping
Collaborative long-term planning to identify credits students have accomplished and need to accomplish to achieve future goals.
Promoting Student Ownership and Agency
By having input into what they learn each day, how they spend their time, and the content they work on, students are not only able to own their experience but are also empowered to drive their learning.
Conferencing to Set and Review Goals
Various daily, weekly, and monthly check-ins to ensure that students are progressing through their credits, hitting their benchmarks, and on track to graduate and reach their long-term goals.
Creating Small Group Instruction Opportunities with Content Specialist Teachers
Students are grouped based on needs and then pulled out – or teachers pushed in – for focused support and mini-lessons led by a content specialist.
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.
Creating Competencies for Mastery-Based Learning
In order to truly individualize learning for each of its students, Bronx Arena felt it needed to create its own competencies that align with its instructional approach.
Measuring Three Levels of Mastery
Students can pursue proficiency at three different levels, based on their prior knowledge and academic strengths and weaknesses.