11 Jul Climate Change Connect Unit
Our second Connect Unit focused on the causes, effects, and issues relating to Climate Change....
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28 Jun Family Volunteer Fair 9/22/18
Mysa's Second Annual Family Volunteer Fair Community engagement is an important value to cultivate for parents, children, students, and organizations. Working to engage, advocate, and participate in volunteerism allows students to feel a greater responsibility for the well-being of their community. It’s a great way to...
10 May Mysa Peru
Mark Twain wrote, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."...
10 Apr Wall Street Journal ~ A Better Way to Teach the Gifted and Everyone Else
In this article by our Head of School, Siri explores mastery learning and letting students proceed at their own pace. Students are rewarded for learning not just time spent at a desk. Read the WSJ article here. ...
06 Apr Philadelphia Inquirer ~ Modern teachers shouldn’t waste time lecturing students
In today’s world the teacher is not the only source of knowledge, information flows from all directions and teachers and schools need to modernize how and what they teach to bring our schools into 2018. Read the article here. ...
09 Mar Forbes ~ Let the Student Become the Master
MYSA School uses a mastery model of learning in which lessons are targeted to meet the unique learning needs of each students. Learn more about the importance of mastery-based education here....
06 Feb Education Post ~ This is What it Really Looks Like to Transform a School
Modern education is consumed with data, deviations, and standardized exams. Leaders, administrators, and teachers are constantly working to increase student achievement to meet future, unknown demands for the pupils. At Mysa, we've been examining what challenging, personalized education looks like in practice and carefully measuring...
01 Feb Shakespeare Connect Unit
Following a heavy science and math unit, our third Connect Unit was a study of Shakespearean ...
11 Oct Chesapeake Bay
As citizens of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, students in this place based Connect unit...
26 Sep Fox News ~ Millions of kids will get suspended this year. Students’ emotions- not discipline – are key to better classrooms
Teachers and school administrators can, and must, gauge students' emotions and step in before troubled students have to act out to get noticed. Read more here about how learning, behavior and emotions are interwoven....