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Determining Priorities

To provide students with the tools they’ll need to manage the competing priorities that come with the rigor of AP coursework and their own lives.

Student Contracts

To support students in developing a sense of responsibility for their studies, their class, and ultimately themselves.

Give Choices to Students

To give students choice with regard to assignments and projects so that they have a voice in what they learn and how they demonstrate their learning.

Feedback Codes

To improve the timeliness and quantity of feedback in order to deepen understanding and improve learning.

Course Onboarding (Academic)

To support students’ success by previewing academic expectations for a course.

Absent Student Email Routine

To gradually release responsibility of making up missed work from the teacher to the student.

Establish Communications with Families

To establish adults in students lives as partners and support systems for students’ growth.

Familiarize Families with AP Expectations and Structures

To establish expectations and provide information about available support to families early enough for them to proactively provide support for students.

Model Asking for Help

To show students that asking for help is an expectation in AP class and that access to it is within reach.

Model Self-Assessment for Students

To show students the importance of and need for self-assessment by teacher modeling and establish a shared practice that will help them grow their AP Skill building the same way it grows a teachers instructional practice.

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