Our Instructional Vision

Specifically, students must:

 

1. Apply learning: transfer skills and content knowledge to authentic and meaningful situations by designing, constructing, and creating new models and solutions 

2. Think critically: apply tools and techniques to formulate and solve problems, synthesize and question complex ideas, consider multiple perspectives and revise thinking

3. Communicate effectively: clearly write, speak, and present ideas through a variety of media, within and across disciplines, for diverse audiences and purposes

Specifically, students must:
 

1. Demonstrate growth mindset: readily take risks, recognize and build on personal strengths, consistently work to improve skills through practice and effort, and actively seek resources and feedback

2. Feel a strong sense of self-efficacy: believe in one’s own capabilities to organize and execute strategic action to attain identified goals

3. Self-regulate as learners: set goals, plan, organize, self-monitor, and reflect; maintain awareness of oneself and one’s surroundings; and manage one’s emotions, attention and behaviors to reach identified goals

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Specifically, all students must have ACCESS to: 

1. Rigorous grade-level content:

   • Multiple opportunities to engage in learning 

   • Multiple opportunities and formats to demonstrate learning 

   • Appropriate language and concept scaffolds to support content accessibility

2. Supplemental and intensive supports, as needed:

   • Flexible and responsive direct instruction in rapid data cycles focused on highest leverage skills

   • Data-informed pedagogy that includes progress monitoring and instructional mitigations towards clear learning targets

   • Behavioral and social-emotional supports that facilitate student engagement and access to classroom instruction

   • A strong asset orientation that seeks to acknowledge and celebrate academic growth and build student confidence

Specifically, students must: 

1. Sustain attention on rigorous learning tasks: explore all dimensions of a complex problem to build on existing schema and deepen understanding of the world

2. Demonstrate a passion for learning: broaden curiosity through inquiry into authentic, content-integrated tasks