The eleven practices comprising the construct are:
- Reaching all children
- Integrating content areas
- Growing as a community
- Offering choices
- Revisiting new content
- Offering challenges
- Understanding each learner
- Seeing the whole child
- Differentiating instruction
- Assessing constantly
- Pushing every child forward
An academically rigorous learning environment allows all children to learn at high levels through hands-on learning experiences that address the whole child and connect to the child’s world in and out of school. A developmentally appropriate learning environment considers the children’s developmental, cognitive, social, emotional, linguistic, and physical development, as well as the sociocultural worlds in which they live.