Education
• Expanded Learning Opportunities – Community schools, which are typically open 24 / 7 / 365, offer and encourage students to pursue both academic and non-academic success by enhanced opportunities to learn and grow.
• College, Career and Citizenship – Whether this is readiness for college, technical school, or simply to enter the workforce, community schools focus on ensuring that students are comfortable and confident after graduation to become engaged members of society.
• Health and Social Support – A strong community starts with healthy members. Ensuring mental and physical well-being is a high priority in community schools.
• Community Engagement – Community schools are run by a collective number of teachers, community organizations and other stakeholders that monitor and grow the wellbeing of the entire community.
• Early Childhood Development – Community schools focus on ensuring that high-quality early learners enter school with confidence and readiness to learn.
• Family Engagement – Community schools offer critical support for family growth and development through activities to increase family engagement.
• Youth Development Activities – Students are given the opportunity to engage in hobbies outside of the classroom for the chance to find out what makes them excited to learn.
TEACHING THE FUTURE
Teachers are tasked every day with correcting spelling tests, entering grades, writing lesson plans, and now with integrating technology along the way. They would be doing their students a disservice if they choose to ignore the fact that technology has become woven into our daily lives, but they are taking cautious steps to ensure that they are using and teaching technology in a beneficial way. Doing so provides students with a fundamental approach to utilizing technology to increase productivity, access resources and to lay the groundwork for use in their future careers. Teachers continue to learn and grow through continuing education courses that
allow them to integrate new methods for incorporating technology in the classroom to ultimately guide our students to a successful future.
Providing students with access to technology in a structured setting provides them with the freedom to individually learn and discover solutions to real-world problems and prepare them for the future. Students have a paved path to achieve success with the help of cooperative, communal workspaces, online portals that encourage cross-collaboration, and support from their teachers, peers and parents.
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PRE-K – GRADE 5
Every child with multiple disabilities or on the autism spectrum can benefit from the individualized programs offered by The School at McGuire Memorial. Our scholarship fund helps make that possible.
GRADE 6 – 8
Businesses who participate in the EITC( Educational Improvement Tax Credit) program can apply their Pennsylvania tax payments for scholarships so that children in need can overcome their greatest challenges and receive a comprehensive education.
GRADE 9 – 12
For information or application assistance, please contact
Dawn at 724-843-0365
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