![]() Alta Pete!īy creating a challenging learning environment that encouraging high expectations for success, Sunshine STEM Academy believes that students will develop into responsible and caring citizens. They have frequent opportunities to direct and to reflect and improve on their own learning progression towards college and career ready standards through formative assessments that help them understand their own strengths and learning challenges. Our students understand how to get “smarter” by applying effort strategically to learning tasks. STUDENTS EXERT OWNERSHIP OVER THEIR LEARNING Students have equitable opportunities to take advantage of digital technologies that can enhance learning based on their demonstration of skills and knowledge. Time and place are used flexibly, in ways that optimize and extend student learning. Learning takes place beyond the traditional school day, and even the school year. We expect our students to have multiple means and opportunities to demonstrate mastery through performance-based and other standardized assessments. Our students move ahead based primarily on demonstrating key learning milestones along the path to mastery of core competencies and bodies of knowledge. Our students benefit from individually-paced, targeted learning tasks that start from where the student is, formatively assess existing skills and knowledge, and address the student’s needs and interests. We believe that students can engage in different ways and in different places. Academic Coaching: Coaching in establishing personalized learning plan and study skills, setting high expectations, evaluation, and assessment.Digital Arts: Photography, Video Production, Graphic Design, Web Design.Coding-All levels: Beginner Level Coding and Problem Solving, SCRATCH, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++.Robotics: Competitive and non-competitive teamwork activities using Lego WeDo 2.0 and EV3 Mindstorms kits.Sunshine STEM Academy provides student-centered, hands-on, rigorous extra-curricular enrichment activities such as academic teams which includes robotics and coding, workshops, camps, and academic coaching. When they fail at a task, confident students are more likely to fault their tactic than to believe that a task is beyond their capabilities.Student-centered, Hands-on, Rigorous, Critical Thinking, Problem solving, High Expectations When children feel confident, they are more likely to take on new tasks, expand their social circle, take risks-and try again if that risk doesn’t pan out. The sense of achievement they feel from successfully completing a challenge will convince them that they have the ability to meet new, harder challenges.įeeling confident is significantly important to helping students develop a sense of resilience. When they successfully complete the challenge, we celebrate their effort. Whether these opportunities are Math skill mastery or Reading fluency we may start by giving your child a task that’s a challenge yet realistic for them initially-and work with them as they try to master a set of word problems or spelling words. Our focus is to help students develop a feeling of competence by giving them opportunities to master specific skills or strengths. And that is why I succeed.” Michael JordanĪt STEAM Academy we are helping students become more resilient by applauding key traits they already demonstrate and nurturing the confidence they need to battle academic challenges. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
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