Target 4 – Engaged Community Partners: FWSU staff and students will collaborate, innovate, create and conceptualize ideas and learning with local, regional, state, and global partners to make a difference in their community, state, and world. Action Step - Plan and manage instruction around problems relevant to students and their community and develop solutions for authentic audiences Indicator of Success - Learning … Continue reading FWSU Administrators Plan for the Future
Summer STEM Learning at GEMS
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning – FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step – Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. It has been hot. It has been rainy. And it is summer! However, GEMS students have been enjoying themselves at summer STEM Camp like … Continue reading Summer STEM Learning at GEMS
Day 178 @ BFA — Last Day!
Today was the last day of school at BFA Fairfax. 178 days have just slipped by and summer now has officially arrived for our students. For our seniors at BFA, today was their last day to roam our hallowed halls as students. While our seniors were getting ready for graduation tomorrow and what lies ahead for them, that … Continue reading Day 178 @ BFA — Last Day!
A Glimpse Behind the Blog
Target 4. Engaged Community Partners – FWSU staff and students will collaborate, innovate, create and conceptualize ideas and learning with local, regional, state, and global partners to make a difference in their community, state, and world. Action Step – Engage community partners in a focused collaborative inquiry process. This year we set the ambitious goal to share one quality blog post a day about … Continue reading A Glimpse Behind the Blog
BFA Students Connect with Classrooms in South Korea – IVECA Part II
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning – FWSU students will engage in personalized learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step – Increase easily accessible opportunities for global collaboration for teachers and students. For the second consecutive night, students from FWSU - specifically BFA Elementary School - communicated in a live class with their partner classrooms in South Korea. Students have been working together on projects, in a virtual environment, … Continue reading BFA Students Connect with Classrooms in South Korea – IVECA Part II
BFA Students Explore Brain Science – Then and Now
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning - Students will engage in innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry and creativity for students. Action Step - Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. Students in Emily Wills’ 7th Grade Language Arts class at BFA Fairfax have been reading the … Continue reading BFA Students Explore Brain Science – Then and Now
GEMS Loves Moms!
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning - Students will engage in innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry and creativity for students. Action Step: Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. Friday, May 10th, was a very special day for mothers of first grade students attending Georgia … Continue reading GEMS Loves Moms!
BFA Takes 2nd Place in Vermont Treasury Cup Challenge
Target 2: Leadership in a Student-Centered Learning Environment - FWSU will foster development of teacher and student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Ensure students and staff take an active role shaping their learning using rich, authentic questions, problems they identify, and diverse resources. Bellows Free Academy Fairfax finished … Continue reading BFA Takes 2nd Place in Vermont Treasury Cup Challenge
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