Washtenaw International Middle Academy

Washtenaw International High School (WIHI) and Washtenaw International Middle Academy (WIMA) are International Baccalaureate (IB) schools, part of the Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium (WEOC). Students who reside in Washtenaw County, or any county contiguous to Washtenaw, are eligible to participate in this academically-focused educational program collaboratively designed and led by community members, the nine Washtenaw County public school districts, and …

Open World Learning Community

Open World Learning Community is a 6-12th grade school in the St. Paul School School District. Open World Learning (OWL) has adopted the EL Education model and has become a credentialed EL Education School. For the past 10 years, OWL has utilized an Election to Work Agreement to support a teacher powered leadership structure as well as maintain fidelity to …

Odyssey Elementary School

Odyssey Elementary puts a 21st-century spin on a one-room schoolhouse. Our K-5 students learn in a mixed-grade, collaborative, open space where they are engaged in standards-driven instruction and hands-on, project-based learning under the guidance of our teacher leads. Rather than being separated into learning groups based on their grade, students receive instruction based on their individual needs and progression. With …

Hope Academy High School

Hope Academy students are prepared for post-high school success, because: We offer a flexible, holistic approach that serves the academic, social-emotional, and physical needs of students who seek a non-traditional school environment; We feature individualized, project-based, and culturally-responsive instruction that promotes restorative relationships, community engagement, service-learning, and real-world leadership development. Our student-focused, teacher-powered leadership model allows those who work directly …

Community Connected Academy at Patrick Henry High School

Laura Jeffrey Academy

Laura Jeffrey Academy (LJA), is a Twin Cities tuition free charter middle school offering a unique STEM-focused, girl-focused educational experience, grades 5 – 8. Students learn through rigorous study, by asking questions, solving problems, and participating in the community. LJA’s interdisciplinary learning and teaching model provides students with the experiences and skills that result in academic and personal success – …

Jennings Community School

JCS recognizes the large difference between active and passive learning experiences. The brain learns more, deeper, and with longer lasting effects from real life learning experiences. In one-way learning experiences such as listening to a lecture or merely observing, learning can occur but has less impact and fades more quickly as compared to getting involved and participating actively. The school …

The Brooklyn Transition Center P373K

The Brooklyn Transition Center is located in Bed- Stuy Brooklyn and part of the New York City Department of Education. The BTC serves students ages 13 – 21 with profound developmental disabilities, including Autism, Down Syndrome, Emotional disturbance, and Intellectual Disabilities. Each of our students has an Individual Education Plan (IEP) and 37% are English Language Learners. We prepare students …

High School for Recording Arts

HSRA is a project-based, public charter school that operates within and around a professional recording studio. Students earn time in the studio by completing academic projects in the core learning areas of English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. HSRA encourages students who may have dropped out or been pushed out from traditional schools to complete their diplomas through a love …

Prairie Creek Community School

We believe as John Dewey did that students construct their skilled understanding of the world from genuine experiences. They learn math as they run a bodega or quantify the day’s recycling. They create their own courts and legislatures as they study government. They become scientists as they design bird-feeding stations and map the geography of the school’s woods and meadows. …

School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability (SEEQS)

SEEQS offers an interdisciplinary project-based, community-based secondary school experience for Oahu families. SEEQS equips its students with the skills and habits of mind for success in the 21st century, including critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity. Learners engage in a project-based, collaborative curriculum centered around multi-disciplinary examination of questions essential to our collective future. SEEQS graduates will be stewards of …

DC Everest Idea School

Idea Charter School is a student-driven, project-based school for students in grades 6-12. Idea Charter School fosters a unique, close-knit school culture. Students at Idea Charter School are assigned to an advisor with a low student-to-teacher ratio. Students work at personalized workstations on their own computers.

Washtenaw International High School (WIHI)

Washtenaw International High School is a public consortium, International Baccalaureate (IB) High School for academically focused students in participating school districts in Washtenaw County, Wayne County, Oakland County, and Livingston County. WIHI opened its doors in the fall of 2011 with approximately 100 students and now serves 490 students in grades 9 through 12. WIHI provides a rigorous, student-centered, inquiry-based …

Rosa Parks Charter High School (formerly Rochester Off Campus Charter High School)

At ROC, students are in the driver’s seat of their own educational experience. ROC is a project-based learning environment. In project based learning, students are able to pursue their own interests, and demonstrate their learning through projects that they design, develop and carry out with guidance from teachers. Students are still responsible for fulfilling all of the Minnesota Academic Standards, …

Loring Nicollet Alternative School

Loring Nicollet Alternative School (LNAS) is a fully accredited high school for students who want something different from a large, traditional public high school. The most successful environment for students is one that is safe and one that validates their experiences. The foundation of this environment at LNAS consists of respect for individuality, a multicultural and gender-fair curriculum, an informal …

Tri-County Early College

Tri-County Early College focuses on project-based learning, STEM-focused learning activities, competency-based assessment, experiential hands-on activities, college courses, 21st century skills, Tony Wagner’s survival skills, college visitation experiences each year, trust levels that require students to take responsibility for their own learning, and a service learning component requiring students to achieve 100 hours of volunteer work by the time they graduate …

UCP Bailes Community Academy

At UCP of Central Florida, we believe every child deserves academics to help them learn, grow and excel. That’s why each of our classrooms is led by highly qualified and experienced teachers who welcome children and families into a community of learning. Our research-based academics lay the foundation for each student’s future success. By opening our classrooms to children with …

STEM Center at Davie County High School

Within the North Carolina Common Core and Essential Standards that was implemented in 2012-2013 across the state, the Davie High STEM Center curriculum will emphasize connections within and between the fields of science, technology, engineering, math and all humanities classes including the arts. integrate technology in meaningful, powerful ways. introduce and engage students in the Design Process. foster college readiness …

Northern Waters Environmental School

Academic rigor is a key component of Northern Waters. Students have daily opportunities to engage in rigorous learning experiences in all of the core subjects to prepare them for success in high school and beyond while being productive members of the greater community. Northern Waters features a combination of student-directed and teacher-initiated projects. Students are engaged in real-world projects that …

Washtenaw Alliance for Virtual Education (WAVE)

The Washtenaw Alliance for Virtual Education is a free, public high school program for students in Washtenaw County school districts. The school offers a flexible, student-centered, project-based approach to learning for students who need an alternative to the traditional high school model. Students follow a rich, flexibly-paced curriculum offering guided by highly-qualified subject area teachers, a teacher advisor, and online …

Animas High School

Animas High School prepares all students for college and post-secondary success by creating critical thinkers and engaged citizens through an innovative, student-centered, project-based curriculum. Rigorous academics, where all students are prepared for college success Culture of excellence, where students are held to high expectations Strong faculty-student relationships, where students are well known Engaging learning, where students see the relevance of …

Building 21 Philadelphia

Building 21 Philadelphia is a non-selective competency-based high school in the School District of Philadelphia. It is a new secondary model that seeks to facilitate an authentic learning experience that will address the unique social and academic needs of all learners. The B21 Ferguson team will work closely with members of the local and school communities to carefully construct a …

Woods Learning Center

Woods promotes academics, creativity, and community taught by teams with a student to teacher ratio of 18:1. Instruction focuses on the whole child. Individual student choices are part of an enriched curriculum for all students to encourage creative thinking and problem solving. Problem based learning is an integral component of our philosophy.

Impact Academy

Four Design Features Impact Academy at Orchard Lake Elementary is where learning is personalized, embedded in real life inquiry and impacts communities. Our vision is to create a personalized learning environment where all students are taught at their instructional level of learning in the areas reading, writing and math. Students and teachers together design an integrated pathway of learning to …

Shasta Charter Academy

Description of learning program: At SCA, learning is personalized for each student’s learning needs, based on connecting his or her interests, life values, learning styles, strengths, and career and educational goals. The key to student learning is the relationship between the student, his or her parents and the facilitator. Together, they decide which of 6 learning methods will best meet …

Minnesota Online High School (MNOHS)

MNOHS is an accredited online high school that focuses on building significant learning relationships among students, teachers, staff, and families. MNOHS has developed a unique community school model which uses collaborative technologies to bring geographically dispersed students closer—to the subjects they are studying; to a creative, connected learning community; and to their goals of completing a single course, earning a …

Phoenix High School

A personalized and flexible learning structure motivates students to direct their own education, initiating projects and meeting learning standards in ways that are unique to their own interests and abilities.

Monarch Community School

Monarch believes that learning happens best when all are working together, (students, teachers, and parents), to develop a rich learning environment spanning home, school, and the greater community. They are committed to providing a developmentally appropriate learning environment in which students are ‘constructing’ their own knowledge connected to their real lives and building upon their prior experiences. They believe that …

Explore Knowledge Academy School

The school’s mission is “personalized learning through educational discovery: building 21st century leaders; one project at a time.” Students complete projects in which they incorporate the curriculum standards for the courses in which they are enrolled. They select areas of interest that are relevant to them and create an essential or guiding question to frame the investigative process.

Academic Arts High School

Students at Academic Arts High School study environmental themes in their coursework throughout the school year. At AAHS, students are encouraged to explore and develop their individual skills and interests through projects aligned with state standards. Twenty-first century resources, including a new music production studio and chromebooks in all classrooms, allow students to develop projects limited only by their imagination …

Highline Academy

Highline offers a standards-based educational program to all students. We begin with the end in mind; what should students know, understand, and be able to do. Then we draw upon a variety of curricular resources to meet the end goal. The foundation for curriculum and instruction at Highline Academy is based on the National Common Core Standards. These standards provide …

Discovery Charter School Falcon Campus

Discovery Charter Schools’ educational program is developmental, hands-on, student-centered, and theme-based to accommodate individual learning styles and achievement levels. Teacher-directed parent participation in the classrooms on a regular basis is a key component to the success of a program based on small group developmental instruction.

Workshop School

At the core of everything we do at the Workshop is project work. Projects must address a problem that is important to both the student and to society, and they must result in work that can be evaluated using real-world standards. While in the lower grades (9-10) teachers play a more prominent role in designing projects, by the time they …