Superintendent Bryan Johnson's new initiative for all high schools to offer a "Future Ready Institute" for students as a way to expose them to various occupations and make all learning relevant to students by using real-life, problem-based, cross-curricular work. This will be for both honors and non-honors students and will meet all requirements for students to graduate and continue on to college or the workforce. They will have multiple opportunities throughout the 4 year program for dual credit, as well as DE and AP classes.
In a nutshell:
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Students may choose to apply and attend any school based on the institute they wish to be a part of, but they must provide their own transportation.
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The institute offered in 2018-2019 school year at SDHS is Entrepreneurship with emphasis in A/V production, Marketing and Web Development.
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Students will be able to participate in the institute while in band, sports or JROTC. They will be able to take regular and/or honors classes, as well.
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Students will have the opportunity to accumulate as many as 21 hours of college credit while participating in an institute throughout high school.
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We currently have 2 partnerships with businesses in downtown Chattanooga and have others who have shown interest, including UTC's School of Business.
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The institute is beginning with 9th grade students. We currently have 70 students who are participating.
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All teachers participating in the institute this year have participated in a week-long training at UNUM this past summer and have learned much about cross-curricular, problem-based learning.
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The culmination for students in the institute will be their work-based learning during their senior year, whether partnered with an outside business or working at school on our website, in our store, or with local teachers.