Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 9 Most schools have a principal, vice principal, and superintendent, but we chose to run our school as co-leaders. Sharing these responsibilities and taking advantage …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 8 Our academic model is specifically designed to meet kids where they are, and help them develop real competency in academics. This means at our …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 7 At Map Academy, our approach to high school is based in Positive Youth Development (PYD). This approach helps us better prepare our students for …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 6 For our staff we don’t plan out all of our trainings at the beginning of the year. Instead we have Responsive Professional Development that …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 5 Discussing how when faced with the day to day challenges of running a high school that is student centered has to be met with …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 4 Coming right off of our first day of school, we discuss the school culture we are trying to create at Map Academy in our …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 3 It takes a certain kind of teacher to work at a school that departs from the traditional model. We put an emphasis on building …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 2 One major aspect of the high school experience we chose to overhaul was the schedule. There are no bells at our school and students …
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Map Academy is currently fully enrolled, but as always, we continue to accept applications for any spots that may open during the 2019-2020 school year. Students who apply before Tuesday, …
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Education Disruption: Season 1, Episode 1 As leaders of our district’s Alternative High School Program, we saw the limitations and shortcomings of the traditional model and the available alternatives. The …
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Students have a unique experience at Map Academy, and we invite you to check out a sampling of it at one of our Open Houses. Here, you will see the facility, get a sense of how the space allows for the student-centered, flexible model at Map, and have your questions answered by one of our staff.