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Infinite Journey- Team 4

Coach: Fran HertzbergMembers: Toni Dinkins, Lyette Carriere, Janette Cesar, Rupert Walters, Jennifer Connolly and Michelle Szczechowicz

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+Infinite Journey Learning Center

Web of concepts, each related to one another

Overlap

Out-reaching

Community

Boundless- no age, no walls, no time restraints

Education truly embedded into life

+CULTURE

+CULTURE

Small class sizes

Teachers as coaches

Self-reliant students

Mixed day with blended learning, passion projects, curriculum study, life skills

Socially Aware

Focused on the whole child

+Teaching and Learning

+Teaching and Learning

Curriculum

Students create personalized learning goals with their coach and parent

Integration of technology

Tool, connect, research and link

Expanding horizons

+Leadership and Decision Making

+Leadership and Decision Making

Teacher Leaders

Staff driven Professional Development

Principal as learner and part of team

Student involvement in leadership

Parent involvement in decision-making

+Family and Community Engagement

+Family and Community Engagement

Build Relationship between family and community

Promote positive social skills

Reach out to families

Providing resource to families

Expeditiary Learning

Partnerships with businesses, restaurants, health agencies, senior citizens

+Accountibility

+Accountibility

Reflection from teachers and students about further steps

Success/impact of passion/social project

Student, Parent, Teacher meeting to design personalized learning plan

Student symposium

+Infinite Journey Learning Center!

Innovation-

The Ability to see what no one else sees to allow you to create solutions to problems and to create products evolved for the time period in which you live.

Learning for Life! Birth through adulthood! A center for the whole community! INFINITE JOURNEY!