As mentioned before, the winter recess is a pivotal benchmark in a school year. That’s all the more the case on this, the first year of Neil Armstrong Academy. As such, I’d like to take a moment to reflect upon status updates of what’s been accomplished in the first (almost) half of the school year:
- The building is completed—yahoo! We’re even learning how to take it for a spin through the winter months.
- Armstrong has up and running the finest PTA and Community Councils you’ll find anywhere in the state.
- Teachers are running the most engaging classrooms I’ve ever witnessed, and students are as positive about their school-day experience as I’ve ever heard.
- Teachers are collaborating regularly on how to best facilitate student learning of the Utah Core Standards and are learning at a break-neck speed how to incorporate technology like iPads into their instruction.
- Students are owning their learning experience. They’ve engaged in a level of hands-on learning I could only have dreamed of.
- Parents have offered a tremendous amount of support and logged hundreds of volunteer hours.
- Programs such as the Lego League and Jump Rope club have enjoyed a tremendous level of participation and fabulous leadership.
- We don’t have a partridge yet, but we’ve got a greenhouse for the pear tree.
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