Kagan Cooperative Learning strategies allow students to use a team approach to learning while resembling 'Real Life' environments.

Students study history by analyzing the six dimensions of culture (Politics, Religion, Aesthetics, Intellectual Developments, Economics, and Social Relations) in a given place and time.

Getting students to be in a constant search of new information based on prior knowledge and expanding into other fields.

The end goal of UbD is understanding and the ability to

transfer learnings – to appropriately connect, make sense of,

and use discrete knowledge and skills in context.

AVID helps teachers shift from delivering content to facilitating learning, resulting in an inquiry-based, student-centric classroom.