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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....
Collaboration between Teachers and Advocate Counselors
Generalist teachers and Advocate Counselors co-teach in order to address each student’s academic and social-emotional needs in a strategic and collaborative nature.
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.
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.
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.
Students Focus on Three Credits
Students only work on three credits at a time, allowing them more time throughout the day to focus on each credit.
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.
How do I strategically instruct students with learning disabilities in a personalized learning classroom?
How do you ensure that your instruction is supporting your students with learning disabilities effectively? Have you looked at ways to crosswalk students' IEPs with your current Learner Plans, engaged educators to collaborate around strategic...
How do I ensure rigor and high expectations for the whole student in blended/personalized learning classrooms?
Ensuring rigor and high expectations for students with learning disabilities means more than just making sure they are able to achieve the same content goals, but also supporting them to reach social and emotional goals. This guide explores ways to...
Tools to Modify OER and Maintain Rigor
One tension that exists for instructional materials providers is that they want to offer educators the ability to modify materials to meet students’ needs but do not want these modifications to reduce their alignment to standards or rigor.
What are Open Educational Resources and how can I start using them?
Educators seeking to understand and use Open Educational Resources (OER) can use this guide to help them search for high-quality, rigorous, and standards-aligned OER.