The Big Picture Schools Coming to Storm Lake

Shared by our colleagues from Prairie Lakes AEA 

The Met School in Providence, Rhode Island is a special place. Consistently recognized as one of the best, most innovative schools in the country, it and the other schools that are now part of the Big Picture Network are organized around several principles that make them very different places than most traditional schools: 

• Students work with adult, non-educator mentors to complete real-world projects; 
• Curricula, projects, use of time and learning environments are personalized to students’ needs and interests; 
• Authentic assessments, not traditional tests or grading systems; 
• Advisory groups that actually work well and mean something; 
• A focus on collaboration and teamwork; 
• A college preparatory focus; and 
• A learning framework focused on empirical reasoning, quantitative reasoning, social reasoning, communication and personal leadership. 

The Big Picture Schools is coming to Storm Lake on October 21! Many of these principles are ones that we are trying to make happen in our own schools here in Iowa and around the country. We have some spots for others to join us for this powerful day of thinking and learning. The registration link is below. 
http://bit.ly/leavingtolearn