Empowering Learning & Creating Futures
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We exist to provide students with an education that affords them limitless opportunities for the future.
We exist to provide students with an education that affords them limitless opportunities for the future.
We will be the best at creating learners who can adapt to the future world and live lives of hope and purpose.
We will be the best at creating learners who can adapt to the future world and live lives of hope and purpose.
Knowledge
Knowledge
StandardsCTE Global CompetenceApplied Knowledge
Skills
Skills
Critical ThinkingCollaboration CommunicationCreativityCivic-Mindedness
Dispositions
Dispositions
CuriosityInitiativeRisk-takingPerseveranceSelf-ControlLeadershipAdaptability
It's the goal of student-driven learning to focus our teaching on the needs of our students and create learning environments where students are empowered to have ownership of learning.
It's the goal of student-driven learning to focus our teaching on the needs of our students and create learning environments where students are empowered to have ownership of learning.
Evidence Informed - Student Driven
Evidence Informed - Student Driven
Active Learning - students solve problems, answer questions, formulate questions of their own, discuss, explain, debate, and brainstorm during class.
Cooperative Learning - students work in teams under conditions that assure both positive interdependence and individual accountability.
Design-Thinking - students are presented with challenges (questions or problems) and learn the standards/objectives in the context of addressing the challenges. Empathy - Define - Ideate - Prototype - Test - Iterate
Balanced Literacy Overview
Balanced Literacy Overview
Math Overview
Math Overview