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Bronx Arena High School
Bronx Arena is an alternative high school that serves overage and under-credited students in grades 9-12 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Each student has a custom education plan meant to help them optimally learn what they need to graduate....
Designing Custom Curriculum
Bronx Arena creates and improves upon its own curriculum. This process helps them ensure it is relevant to students. The curriculum serves as a foundational component of individualizing learning for each student.
Creating a Culture of Revision
Using data, feedback, and milestones to build out specific revisions around skills students wants to gain proficiency in.
Student Support Network of Advocate Counselors
Advocate counselors provide social support to students throughout the day. Each class (or Arena) is staffed with a counselor.
Separate School and Home Devices
Students have their own top of the line device they can use at school and can check out loaner devices to take home as needed for academic purposes.
Arenas (Four-Hour Time Blocks)
Students spend the majority of their instructional time in an open class period working on their individual academic plans, receiving customized support as needed.
Prioritizing Non-Traditional Metrics
Given the unique challenges of their personalized learning approach and student population, Bronx Arena prioritizes data focused on attendance and output.
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.
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.
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.