Our Vision: The Exploration School is an integrated program designed to encourage life-long learning and prepare students to be contributing citizens of a world community.
Our Goals:
- Promote student accountability
- Provide a personal education plan for each student
- Increase parent involvement
- Develop a range of curriculum opportunities and modes of teaching
- Provide every student with access to multiple forms of technology for skill development
- Encourage innovative, flexible, and creative approaches to school scheduling, programming, and curriculum development.
- Practice equity at all levels
Students attending The Exploration School can expect to learn with fellow Explorers who face incredible challenges and strive to make a difference in their community. Do you …
- enjoy solving real-life problems?
- dream of changing the world?
- search for hidden meaning?
- wish you could discover fascinating future options?
Explorers develop tools to solve everyday problems. They change the world for themselves and others. Do you …
- prefer working as part of a team?
- enjoy making connections within the community?
- want to be trail blazer?
- want to work with a team of teachers who will inspire you to learn?
A Day in the Life of a Student at The Exploration School:
- The day could start in Choir, AVID, Spanish, or Woodshop.
- Then it's off to Exploration Science where we are conducting experiments and collecting data for our Science Fair Project.
- In Info Tech, we are working on the 4Ps. Today, we are learning how to do Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations for our student-led conference.
- Then we go to Advisory class to prepare our portfolios for the upcoming student-led conferences.
- After Advisory, we are off to math class. Math is geared toward the academic needs of the individual, and we are creating 3-D images to help us understand mathematical calculations. We also use the math lab to reinforce our skills.
- In Language Arts, we are acting out the book, Lord of the Flies, to get a deeper grasp of story's plot.
- During lunch, the student council meets with its leadership team to plan fund-raisers, assist in planning an advisory, or brainstorming exploration field trip opportunities for their peers.
- In Social Studies, we choose a differentiated project to creatively demonstrate our understanding of the history of the world.
- For the student with a special interest in the study of Spanish and the culture, the day could end playing games to learn vocabulary.
Core Course Sequence at The Exploration School:
- 9th Grade
- Language Arts (Honors available)
- World Geography (Honors available)
- Integrated Science I (Honors available)
- Information Technology
- Math (in sequence)
- Spanish, Choir, or AVID
- 10th Grade
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