HOW WE CONNECT
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that need to be mastered at a young age and
are critical for a student’s success. Education is
being shaped by incorporating different styles
of teaching, accessing new technologies to
enhance learning, and ensuring that students
leave high school with a sense of confidence
to enter the workforce or to continue on
to higher education. A variety of trends,
disruptions and technologies are shaping the
way K-12 schools face their biggest challenges.
Our Middle School students write,
perform and record rap songs using their
knowledge of historical events as material.
Our curriculum integrates technology into
hands-on projects and challenges students
to embrace their intellect and creativity.
How will you encourage your child to
connect the past to the present?
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Engage Parents and Caregivers
Parents can’t advocate for their children
if they aren’t given the tools to do so. The
National Education Association states that
by monitoring, supporting, and advocating
for their students, parents and caregivers can
ensure that their children have an opportunity
to be successful in school. By working with
your students to set goals, make sure they
are on track for academic success, holding
them responsible for their education, and
advocating for them, their peers, and their
entire school community, you are doing a
service that will have a valuable outcome for
all involved.
Data and Analytics
Relationships between K-12 teachers and
college educators used to be solely focused on
college transition programs. Now, the focus
is shifting to partnerships based on formal
research studies, professional development,
or joint technology and curriculum initiatives,
as EdTech Online states. Data-driven research
is being gathered and assessed by college
educators and results are being implemented
in the form of metrics to keep individual
students on track to graduate. If an individual
student falls “off track,” teachers utilize that
information to determine a course of academic
intervention. This form of individualized
learning is being employed across the country
with positive results.
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