Intervention and Enrichment Ideas
-- Trent C, Grade 9 FLT is the name of a flexible block program at a high school in New Hampshire that allows students to have time in the school day for intervention and enrichment. This time gives students a voice and boosts academic achievement and overall social-emotional health. But you likely already know [...]
What it Means to Be a Good Digital Citizen
You can do whatever you want. And so can your students. In the physical world, and the digital world. Of course, our actions have consequences. This can be a little easier to see in the physical world -- for example, you can drive 30 miles over the speed limit if you want. However, you [...]
How Your School Schedule Can Support Equity for Learners
"If you have a mission, if you have a vision, right, if you know your values and your goals, your purpose, does your schedule align with that? And so if you’re saying, ‘Look I guarantee that all of my students are going to be successful, I understand that my my students had this pause [...]
The Top 5 List for Successful CBL
Making the shift to a competency-based learning environment may seem like an overwhelming task. For administrators, how do you get everyone on board? As a teacher, how do you manage the shifts in grading and curriculum? And what about if you're a parent or a student? How do you adapt to the changes, or [...]
How PLCs Facilitate Competency Ed
"...we didn’t set out to become a competency based learning environment. We had actually simply asked the question -- building a vision mission etc. -- “What is it that we want for our learners?” and we started to build from there. And we felt like the PLC model really fit with that.” - Jonathon [...]
How to Make Your Flex Time Implementation Successful
What makes or breaks a new program at a school? Often, preparedness and having all (or most) staff onboard. All of the systems of support need to be in place. If a school is considering adding a flex period to their school schedule for extra help, intervention, remediation, enrichment, etc.; the success of that addition [...]