Teachers at the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning endeavor to practice the school’s pedagogical philosophy called the subordination of teaching to learning, an instructional approach that does not dominate learning, but rather is guided by it.  Implementing the approach involves: getting students actively and mentally engaged in lessons; assisting students to go beyond rote memorization, wherever the subject matter allows, and to develop criteria for understanding; recognizing every child’s high intellectual capacity and, thereby, welcoming errors in students’ work as guides to help them harness that capacity; promoting students’ use of what they know to master new content; and encouraging student initiative and self-sufficiency.