“We said if we are going to redesign high school so that kids go to and graduate from college, we’re going to have to teach and assess these outcomes,” sad Bob Lenz, co-founder of Envision Schools and Director of Innovation. Students have to master academic content and skills, collaborate effectively, think critically, reflect on how they learn, and understand how they can have an impact on their own success. In addition to taking the state assessments for the past 12 years, students have also been learning how to see themselves as scholars, so they can have the confidence to face challenges in college.Įnvision Schools is a small public charter network in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to prepare students to get into and graduate from college, and to do this, teachers focus on helping students develop what they call a “deeper learning” skill set. Tidwell's presentation represents Envision Academy's focus: to teach and measure skills that go beyond algebra and essay writing. She also has to show that she’s developed a personal philosophy of learning and that she can connect her academics to her personal life. Tidwell will have to present three different projects she worked on during her senior year, laying out her thesis, providing evidence to support the thesis and connecting interdisciplinary ideas. She looks nervous, but confident as she begins her College Success Portfolio Defense at Envision Academy in Oakland, Calif. Twelfth grader Stazanae Tidwell sits on a stool facing three teachers and two students, ready to present her thesis, the product of four years of hard work. The walls of Envision Academy of Arts and Technology in Oakland are covered with messages about academic perseverance and celebrations of its many seniors headed to college next year.
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