This year, GEMS Innovation Lab has a choice class offering for middle school students to explore and design solutions for authentic problems using rapid prototyping. This is the second year GEMS has offered this type of innovative choice class to students. You can review last year’s blog post featuring the class here. Rapid prototyping is … Continue reading THE FWSU STORY: Using Self Direction to Solve Problems in GEMS Innovation Lab
THE FWSU STORY: Author-Adventurer Jan Reynolds Talks Sustainability and Culture in Fletcher
"Well, they could just ride their bikes to work," Fletcher Elementary School kindergartener Matthew Ryan suggested with enthusiasm, wagging his left index finger in the air while holding a microphone in his right. In front of the entire school, Ryan was responding to a question by author-adventurer Jan Reynolds, who visited Fletcher Monday to engage … Continue reading THE FWSU STORY: Author-Adventurer Jan Reynolds Talks Sustainability and Culture in Fletcher
THE FWSU STORY: Franklin West Supervisory Union Named 21st Century Learning Exemplar
P21 has designated Franklin West Supervisory Union (FWSU) as a 21st Century Learning Exemplar for 2017-2018 (1 of 16 nation wide). FWSU, comprised of Fairfax, Georgia, and Fletcher schools earned this award for its outstanding practices in equipping students with the necessary skills and knowledge for success in college, career, and life. In order to become … Continue reading THE FWSU STORY: Franklin West Supervisory Union Named 21st Century Learning Exemplar
The FWSU Story: BFA Fairfax Music, Band, and Chorus Are Programs On The Move!
If you’ve had the pleasure of attending a concert of BFA Fairfax within the past few years, you may have noticed some changes. Within this time we have welcomed new faculty and added new ensembles. Most noticeable, however, has been the profound increase in student participation in our various music programs. Whether it’s an elementary … Continue reading The FWSU Story: BFA Fairfax Music, Band, and Chorus Are Programs On The Move!
THE FWSU STORY: How Micro-Credentials are Changing the Face of Professional Development
This year FWSU launched its first micro-credential. Micro-credentials are a new system emerging across the United States that will address new (and continued) learning for educators, as well as the needs for continued professional growth of school systems. Micro-credentialing offers a proficiency-based recognition system for professional development. The micro-credential system closely mirrors our proficiency-based system for students; … Continue reading THE FWSU STORY: How Micro-Credentials are Changing the Face of Professional Development
THE FWSU STORY: BFA Fairfax Middle School Students Engage in Flexible Learning Opportunities
This year BFA Fairfax Middle School is implementing a school-wide Project-Based Learning (PBL) component as part of our academic program. For the past several years our staff collaborated to create more authentic and student-driven learning opportunities with varied levels of success. This year a group of teachers met during the summer to design a process … Continue reading THE FWSU STORY: BFA Fairfax Middle School Students Engage in Flexible Learning Opportunities
THE FWSU STORY: Dome Theatre Comes to GEMS
Last week, the Dome Theater presented several shows to kindergarten through sixth grade and opened up their show to families to experience the 16 x 16 foot wide, 10-foot tall dome. Some of the shows presented were Into the Deep, Habitat Earth, Passport to the Universe, The Secrets of a Cardboard Rocket, Dinosaur Prophecy, Saturn the … Continue reading THE FWSU STORY: Dome Theatre Comes to GEMS
THE FWSU STORY: Dot Day Inspires Creativity, Individuality in Fletcher
Students at the Fletcher Elementary School celebrated International Dot Day during the first several weeks of school. While the official Dot Day takes place in mid-September, in recent weeks the students at the school have explored the concepts of creativity, kindness, uniqueness, and mindfulness through art. The book, The Dot, by noted children’s author Peter … Continue reading THE FWSU STORY: Dot Day Inspires Creativity, Individuality in Fletcher
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