Meet Kids Where They Are to Optimize Learning Two cornerstones of the Mountain Community School model are concerned with the student as an individual: personalized learning, and mastery-based assessments. These concepts may be new to you, so let’s explore what they mean. You are all individuals…. A personalized learning approach starts with the realization that …
Place-Based Education connects the curriculum with our place Place-based education is relevant, engaging, and made to stick. The purpose is to bring the local community into the classroom and the classroom out into the community.This encourages student engagement, increases retention of material, broadens student perspectives and experiences, and builds student confidence that they can make …
Keep Students Engaged & Inspired through Project-based learning When your kids start rambling on about how to play their favorite video game, how many breeds of dogs there are and where they come from, or the nuances of the Harry Potter stories you can be sure of one thing – they are engaged with those …