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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.
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.
Bronx Arena Course Creation Manual
This manual supports teachers in designing courses and content at Bronx Arena based on the systems of blended learning, competencies, and assessment.
Cisco ISD Participates in Raising Blended Learners Finalist Workshop
As part of the Raising Blended Learners demonstration initiative, teams representing 10 finalist schools and districts attended a workshop in February to receive professional assistance in further refining their blended learning plans. Five winners,...
Cisco ISD’s Redesign Process
Cisco ISD has been highly intentional about how it is trying to improve teaching and learning for its students.
Balancing Blended Structures and Teacher Autonomy at Cisco
Cisco ISD has provides enough structure and guidance to help ensure quality and consistency across classrooms, but also allows teachers to have autonomy over the instructional approaches used in their classrooms.
How do I deepen differentiation and personalization within a station rotation model?
Currently implementing stations and thinking “now what?” This guide will give you resources around how adding more flexibility of movement, timing, strategic data use, and varied groupings will allow for greater differentiation, personalization, and...
How do I develop student ownership and accountability in a station rotation model?
Implementing a station rotation model requires intentional accountability systems to develop student ownership and ensure student success. This guide will go through strategies for developing student ownership through choice, habits, and student...
Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
Share Best Practices vs. Share Process/Failures: How might practitioners best learn from one another? What should we be cataloguing and sharing throughout the district?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of sharing “best practices” versus sharing our processes and failures, and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.