The article discusses the Caliber Schools model which focuses on providing students with excellent, rigorous instruction through practices like hiring outstanding teachers who work in teams. The schools emphasize using data to improve teaching methods and designing new practices. The curriculum aligns with Common Core standards and requires daily writing, project-based learning, and integrated courses to prepare all students for college. Additionally, the schools implement personalized learning plans for each student and classroom configurations that allow independent and group work, in order to foster individualized, meaningful learning.

1. CALIBER SCHOOLS FOCUS ON
QUALITY INSTRUCTION,
INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING
By Pete Briger

2. INTRODUCTION
 The Caliber Schools model provides students with
excellent instruction and an environment that fosters
rigorous, meaningful, and relevant learning. The series
of charter schools that will serve the San Francisco Bay
Area emphasizes practices such as hiring outstanding
teachers that work together in teams and expecting
teachers and administrators to use data to improve
current teaching methods and to design new teaching
practices. With the expectation that all students will
attend and graduate from college, the school provides a
curriculum that aligns with Common Core and requires
daily writing, project-based learning, and integrated
courses.

3. QUALITY INSTRUCTION, INDIVIDUALIZED
LEARNING
 The schools’ core components also address
classroom design and elements of learning.
Teachers get to know students so that they can
provide a personalized learning plan for each one,
and students learn to support each other through
peer tutoring, family-style lunches, and programs
that encourage social and emotional development.
So that students can comfortably work
independently, online, or in small groups, the
school’s classrooms are configured in a variety of
ways.