Programs

BACS will provide students with unparalleled CBE opportunities, project-based learning, hands-on learning, and community outreach. These unique offerings will enable students to immerse themselves in personalized, meaningful learning experiences, fostering their motivation, engagement, and understanding of the world around them.

Unlike traditional schools, BACS doesn't confine students to a single grade level. Instead, we group them into dynamic 'pods' spanning three grade levels. This unique system allows students to progress at their own pace, ensuring they master all concepts and standards for all three levels by the end of their time in the 'pod'.

BACS will have school-wide projects to allow students of all levels to work and interact together while achieving common goals. Projects will have aligned academic elements appropriate for each age and stage of the students. Integrating all students into a school-wide project will enhance the school community and promote understanding of all students, integrate and applaud differences that all students bring forth, and encourage partnerships. Additionally, students will create independent projects that build from their newfound interest in an aspect of a school project, allowing them to discover meaning in their areas of interest.

Elements of Focus

Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.

Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their learning needs.

Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.

Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.

Rigorous, shared expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.