Flexible, Learner-Centered Curricula & Assessments

a. A robust and challenging curriculum enables learning to be customized to each learner's unique needs, goals, and preferences and supports relevant, purposeful, and rigorous learning for all as described in the Instructional Look Fors.

b. Curriculum is vertically aligned with multiple levels of scaffolding and is explicitly designed to support group work, self-directed work, and regular facilitator feedback and direction.

c. Curriculum is accessible to learners at all times to ensure flexibility in where and when learning occurs.

d. Educators and learners have access to a robust set of on-demand assessments using multiple modalities from which information can be used to support learners’ progress and to demonstrate mastery.

e. Learner assessments are based on a broad view of learner success; inputs are transparent for learners (e.g., mastery of content, knowledge, habits, and skills); and social-emotional skills measurement is used motivationally rather than punitively.

f. Assessment data is accessible, transparent, and available in a timely manner such that all stakeholders in the learning environment can gauge learner progress and mastery.