Reception celebrates dropout prevention and recovery program
What: Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Joe A. Hairston and John Murray, Chief Executive Officer of AdvancePath Academics, will welcome community leaders to a reception and brunchto celebrate the Maryland’s Tomorrow/AdvancePath Academy, a dropout prevention and recovery program located at Chesapeake High School.
When: Monday, March 10, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Where: Chesapeake High School
1801 Turkey Point Road
Essex, 21221
Background:
Using the Blueprint for Progress as the foundational document that unites staff and stakeholders through common beliefs, priorities, and goals, BCPS continues to increase academic rigor and foster a culture of higher expectation and broader opportunity for all students. As a result, BCPS has consistently raised student achievement. In addition, BCPS continues to garner national and international recognition for the use of technology to support and enhance teaching and learning and for the excellence of its high schools and fine arts instruction.
Like many school districts, BCPS is stillconfronted with complex and persistent challenges, such as finding ways to ensure that all students successfully complete high school.
Working with AdvancePath Academics (which operates learning centers on school campusesto recover, educate, and graduate disengaged, at-risk, and out-of-school youth), Baltimore County Public Schools opened the Maryland’s Tomorrow/AdvancePath Academy this school year.
At the core ofthe BCPS Maryland’s Tomorrow/AdvancePath Academy is the belief that all students have individual learning styles and needs, and that some students are better served by non-traditional environments. AdvancePath offers students individualized, self-paced, computer-based curricula as well as small group instruction with well-qualified teachers. Participating students select either morning, afternoon, or evening sessions year-round, and upon successful completion of the program, they earn state-recognized high school diplomas. The decision to implement this model was based on extensiveresearch on the best methods toaddresstheneeds of out-of-school and at-riskyouth.
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