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9 Cornerstone Strategies and This We Believe Characteristics

• **Ensure that teachers assess the individual learning needs of students and tailor instructional strategies and multiple assessments accordingly**

• Multiple learning and teaching approaches that respond to diversity of students • Students and teachers engaged in active learning • Assessment and evaluation that promote quality learning

• **Provide structured planning time for teachers to align curriculum across grades and schools and to map efforts that address the academic, developmental, social, and personal needs of students, especially at critical transition periods (eg. Elementary to Middle and Middle to High)**

• Curriculum that is relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory. • Assessment and evaluation that promote quality learning. • Organizational structures that support meaningful relationships and learning

• **Align the school wide comprehensive ongoing pd program and plans of staff members with the requisite knowledge of content, instructional strategies, and student development factors.**

• Courageous, collaborative leadership • A shared vision that guides decisions • Educators who value working with this age group and are well prepared to do so • Multiple learning and teaching approaches that respond to diversity of students • School wide efforts and policies that foster health, wellness, and safety

• **Institute structural leadership systems that allow for substantive involvement in decision-making by students, teachers, family members, and the community, and that support effective communication among these groups.**

• School initiated family partnerships. • Courageous, collaborative leadership • A shared vision that guides decisions

• **Align all programs and structures so that all social, economic, and racial/ethnic groups have open and equal access to challenging activities and learning.**

• Curriculum that is relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory. • High expectations for every member of the learning community. • Organizational structures that support meaningful relationships and learning

• **Establish the academically rigorous essential learning that a student is required to master in order to successfully make the transition to high school and align the curriculum and teaching strategies to realize this goal.**

• Curriculum that is relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory. • Multiple learning and teaching approaches that respond to the diversity of students. • Students and teachers engaged in active learning • Assessment and evaluation that promote quality learning.

• **Create dynamic teacher teams that are afforded common planning time to help organize and improve the quality and quantity of interactions between teachers and students.**

• Organizational structures that support meaningful relationships and learning • Students and teachers engaged in active learning • An adult advocate for every student • Multiple learning and teaching approaches that respond to the diversity of students

• **Implement a comprehensive advisory or other program that ensures that the student has frequent and meaningful opportunities to meet with an adult to plan and assess the student’s academic, personal, and social development**

• An adult advocate for every student • Multifaceted guidance and support services • An inviting, supportive, and safe environment • School wide efforts and policies that foster health, wellness, and safety • School initiated community partnerships

• **Entrust teachers with the responsibility of implementing schedules that are flexible enough to accommodate teaching strategies consistent with the ways students learn most effectively and that allow for effective teacher teaming, common planning time, and other lesson planning.**

• Educators who value working with this age group and are well prepared to do so • Courageous, collaborative leadership • Organizational structures that support meaningful relations and learning • Multiple learning and teaching approaches that respond to the diversity of students • Assessment and evaluation that promote quality learning