In compliance with the Virginia Department of Education's innovation plan of action, Amherst County Public School will take the initiative to:

• employ nontraditional approaches to curriculum, instruction, assessment, graduation, and/or school operations,
• to provide students with new and innovative opportunities for learning, personal growth, intellectual and physical engagement, and achievement outside traditional delivery models that aligned to the Virginia Profile of a Graduate and may include;
• competency-based learning, including the identification or development of alternate, valid, and reliable methods for meeting standards and division curriculum objectives and for objectively measuring, aggregating, and reporting mastery of learning;
• innovative learning environments such as including students in the design of learning such as significant content delivery using technology, virtual, and blended learning approaches;
• integrated curriculum and courses designed to provide students with authentic, relevant learning experiences;
• demonstrated competencies tied to Virginia’s 5 C’s: critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and citizenship;
• programming outside the regular school day that may include extended-day or extended-year initiatives, before- and after-school programs, weekend, and summer programs, work internship opportunities, and other nontraditional strategies.