Strategic Area of Focus:

Personalization

Schools will:

1.1 Create flexible scheduling opportunities which allow for longer, more integrated instruction, common planning time for teachers, and increased learning opportunities in the community setting for students.

1.2 Learn in small learning communities where teams of teachers are responsible for common groups of students who take several classes together.

1.3 Support and recognize students through internal and/or external mentoring, tutoring and advisory programs.

     - Best Practice-Stranahan High School

1.4 Create Ninth Grade Academies with a dedicated administrator and guidance support where teachers share common groups of students with common planning.

      - Best Practice-Flanagan High School

      -Best Practice-Hollywood Hills High School

      - Best Practice-Plantation High School

1.5 Build capacity of teachers to identify the needs of - and provide appropriate supports and accommodations for - multiple student populations.

1.6 Work across the school system to address student needs at critical transitions, in particular the transition from middle grades to high school and from high school to post-secondary education and the workforce.

1.7 Involve students in decision-making in their academic and career development.

1.8 Develop academically rigorous curricula that meet or exceed standards, contain relevant real-world contexts, and build on student and community assets.