NEW START
Working Side-by-Side with Leadership Teams and Teachers
EDWorks offers a choice of innovative, highly engaged New Start academies, designed in a flexible and scalable way to meet a particular school's needs.
New Start breathes new life into persistently under-performing schools by creating interest-based academies focused on personalized student achievement.
Through New Start we work side-by-side with leadership teams and teachers at schools categorized as "persistently low-performing." New Start uses existing school and partner resources in new and more effective ways to chart pathways to achievement and success.
EDWorks offers a choice of innovative, highly engaged New Start academies, designed in a flexible and scalable way to meet a particular school's needs.
Academy for Global Leadership and Public Service
National Design Partner: The Riley Institute at Furman University
Driving Content Area: Social Studies Primary
Instructional Model: Socratic Seminar
Portrait of a Graduate from the Academy for Global Leadership and Public Service
Graduates of the Academy for Global Leadership and Public Service are driven by the passion to make their world a better place. They have a deep understanding of the social, economic, scientific, political and historical contexts within which leadership and public service exist and how they impact lives and societies. Most importantly, graduates of this high school exhibit the leadership qualities and skills to advance the common good in a diverse and globally interdependent world.
The Academy for Innovation
National Design Partner: Granville Studio for the Arts
Driving Content Area: Science
Primary Instructional Model: Inquiry-Based Instruction
Portrait of a Graduate from the Academy for Innovation
A graduate of The Academy for Innovation is an out-of-the-box dreamer and doer with the enthusiasm, knowledge, skills and desire to create positive change in the world. A master of creative thinking and the design thinking process, our graduate understands the world through empathetic listening and observation. A prolific idea generator, the Innovation High graduate is a self-aware, self-confident individual, passionately engaged in their chosen domain. Our graduate translates ideas into elegant, well-designed innovations, communicating with verbal and visual sophistication through multiple media, including technology.
Improv Academy for the Arts
National Design Partner: Open Sky Jazz
Driving Content Area: The Arts
Primary Instructional Model: Project-Based and Problem-Based Learning
Portrait of a Graduate from the Improv Academy for the Arts
An Improv Academy for the Arts graduate will thoughtfully apply the skills of improvisation to unpredictable, real-world situations across all academic and non-academic disciplines. Improvisation skills will empower students with the ability to act, create and respond intellectually and intuitively to one’s immediate environment. This will result in the development of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or new ways to respond to our world. This model is most effective when the learner has a thorough understanding of essential concepts in each subject area.
Health Sciences Academy
National Design Partner: BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study)
Driving Content Area: The Life Sciences
Primary Instructional Model: Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning
Portrait of a Graduate from the Health Sciences Academy
Graduates of the Health Sciences Academy will make connections among foundational concepts in STEM, language arts and the social sciences. The Health Sciences Academy graduate will be able to explore, examine, test, and implement new ideas to today’s questions in the health sciences. They will be able to critically examine and use data to make decisions concerning health-related issues. This model helps graduates communicate key ideas about the health sciences to both specialists and non-specialists in the field and be qualified to pursue a STEM job or college major with confidence.
Green Technologies Academy
National Design Partner: BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study)
Driving Content Area: The Sciences
Primary Instructional Model: Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning
Portrait of a Graduate from the Green Technologies Academy
The Green Technologies Academy helps students achieve success by teaching them to critically examine and use data to make decisions concerning green technologies. Graduates are able to make connections among foundations concepts in STEM, language arts and the social sciences. Graduates of the Green Technologies Academy see the world in its possibilities and view people and cultures with global compassion and are qualified to pursue a STEM job or college major with confidence.
Digital Citizenship Academy
National Design Partner: BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study)
Driving Content Area: The Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Primary Instructional Model: Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning Digital Citizenship Academy
Portrait of a Graduate from the Digital Citizenship Academy
The Digital Citizenship Academy prepares graduates to live a life of unquenchable curiosity. They are able to make connections among foundational concepts in STEM, language arts and the social sciences. Graduates have the skills to be able to critically examine and use data to make decisions concerning the power and potential of digital tools and resources. Graduates of the Digital Citizenship Academy are willing to push on the boundaries of conventional solutions and are qualified to pursue a STEM job or college major with confidence.
