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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.
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.
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.
Measuring Three Levels of Mastery
Students can pursue proficiency at three different levels, based on their prior knowledge and academic strengths and weaknesses.
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.
Four Hour Instructional Blocks at Bronx Arena
Bronx Arena's founder discusses why the school uses four hour blocks of time called "Arenas" as the main time for instruction.
Blended Learning Business Plan Template
This document provided structure for Cisco, and other districts participating in the Raising Blended Learners initiative, to write a business plan.
Cisco ISD Leaders and Pilot Teachers Describe Elements of a Shared Vision for a New Student Experience
Cisco ISD began the 2016-17 school year with their year 1 pilot in 4th - 7th grade math classroom. Cisco is part of the Raising Blended Learners demonstration initiative showcasing strategies for using blended learning to improve student achievement...
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...