Kent City Community School 2009-2010
High Impact Initiatives
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“Kent City Community Schools:
Where Every Student is an Honor Student, They Just Have to Earn It.”
This quote made by Kent City Middle School Principal, Greg Apkarian sums up the new embedded honors program being implemented in the Kent City Community School District. Teachers have developed project based, career relevant, and curriculum focused anchor activities that when properly completed, can credential students as honors students.
Embedded Honors Credentialing is part of Kent City Community Schools 2009-2010 K-12 High Impact Initiatives. Embedded Honors provide avenues for teachers to give opportunities to gifted and talented students through differentiated instruction rather than creating whole classrooms designated to only serving honor students. This initiative will service the individual needs of each student by providing those who are excelling with challenging additions to the curriculum while at the same time opening up more time for teachers to focus on and address those who are having trouble grasping certain concepts.
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Innovative Seminar Program to Provide Student’s with Cutting Edge Curriculum in a Time of Economic Transition
Kent City Community Schools is committed to providing rigorous, relevant, student-centered learning that is necessary to be successful as Michigan transitions to a knowledge driven economy. By inserting a learning enrichment seminar period, Kent City Community School District is able to allow for a flexible learning system within the current six period day, that will provide their students with an opportunity to learn interesting and valuable information focused on 21st century skills.
In February of 2009, Kent City Community Schools held a Strategic Planning Session with the goal of developing innovative ways to combat the difficult fiscal times. During this meeting, eight High Impact Initiatives were set in motion to ensure that Kent City students graduate as leaders in a competitive and continuously changing workforce. The development of a Learning Enrichment Seminar is one of the High Impact Initiatives that resulted from the Strategic Planning Session.
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Bridging Kent City Schools to the Surrounding Community Through Art
Kent City Community Schools is finding unique ways to expose their students to more art by bringing in local artists from the community and exposing students to art that surrounds us in the community to take advantage of the growing West Michigan art scene.
