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Individual Projects Course at Village High School

Village High School offers students the opportunity to develop their own individual project course (e.g., beekeeping, podcasting) based on their interests, enroll in it for the semester, and complete the course for credit after demonstrating their learning. This course schedule for the 2021-22 school year demonstrates some examples of individual project courses that students can enroll in (listed under “Ind. Projects”).

January 31, 2022

Quest Examples at The Forest School

Students at The Forest School and The Forest School Online engage in quests – real-world challenges around a specific theme that students explore deeply and produce work to showcase at an exhibition. This blog post shares some examples of quests that students worked on across grade levels during January and February 2022.

January 31, 2022

Learning Through Apprenticeships at The Forest School

Students at The Forest School share their experiences of participating in apprenticeships starting in middle school.

January 31, 2022

Taos Academy Internship Program Handbook

High school students at Taos Academy can participate in an internship to receive elective credit. This handbook outlines what students need to do to receive credit along with expectations and guidelines around grading and progress reports.

January 31, 2022

A Day in the Life of a Middle School Studio

An educator, also referred to as a guide, from The Forest School discusses what happens daily in the school’s middle school studio.

January 24, 2022

Mentor Teacher Selection Form

Village High School in Colorado allows students to select their mentor teacher through a voting process. Each student fills out a Google Form and ranks their first, second, and third choices, and then school leaders match each student with their preferred mentor teacher as best as they can.

January 24, 2022

Education Disruption Podcast Episode: Student-Teacher Relationships

This podcast episode, named “When Student-Teacher Relationships are Prioritized, Learners Thrive,” dives into the story of a student at Map Academy, and how his relationship with a mentor teacher helped him re-engage with school and avoid dropping out.

Listen to more interesting podcast episodes from Map Academy at Education Disruption.

January 24, 2022

Map Academy Anchor Program

At Map Academy, the Anchor program provides each student a 1:1 relationship with an adult adviser, an opportunity to build community with peers, and a designated block of time each day to set academic goals and monitor student progress.

January 24, 2022

Running Partners Goal Tracker

Students at The Forest School Online work with a peer partner each morning to set their daily goals on a tracker and create action plans for their “core skills” block. They hold each other accountable and support each other through daily goal progress checks and action-plan reviews.

January 24, 2022

Laurel Springs School (LSS) Connect

Laurel Springs School built their own in-house private social network where students could connect with each other, have discussions, and post questions/comments asynchronously to continue conversations outside of class and build an online community.

January 24, 2022

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