19May, 2017
Top Four Reasons Parents Choose a Specific Charter School
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Not necessarily! I used to think that this phrase from one of my favorite movies applied when it came to building and marketing schools to K-12 families. Today, not so much. Parents have so many new and exciting school options to choose from. This...
26September, 2016
Are Charter Schools Effective?
- a Mark Holley
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quality schools, Traditional School, Charter Schools, Non-traditional schools
The performance of charter schools has been a topic of much debate in education since the first charter school opened its doors in 1992. Typically, the loudest voices for or against charters have come from the education leaders and the schools themselves. Basically, those with the most to gain -...
18April, 2015
Growth of Charter Schools in California
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quality schools, School Choice, Charter Schools, Choosing the Right School
The number of charter schools in California has exploded in recent years, with nearly 1,200 open for the 2014-15 school year. In fact, from 1999 to today the number of charter schools in California has increased by more than 650%. The chart below shows just how dramatic the growth of charter...
11November, 2014
What Should I Look For? How To Pick The Right Charter School
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quality schools, personalization, Online Learning, E-Learning, Method Schools, common core, Project Based Learning
LOTS TO CHOOSE FROM
You probably don’t need us to tell you this, but there are lots of schools to choose from - especially with the rapid growth of charter schools. California is at the heart of the school choice movement, with well over 1,000 charter schools. We spoke with a parent recently who...
31October, 2014
Project Based Learning Matches How Students Learn
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quality schools, curriculum, Method Schools, Project Based Learning, Traditional School
I have been working in the charter school industry in a variety of capacities for many years. The experience combined with many years of schooling from teaching and administrative credential programs to a PhD program in curriculum, has prompted much reflection on education, schooling and what...
14October, 2014
Method and The Common Core (again...)
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Does Method "Follow Common Core?"
We get asked frequently - all the time really - if we "follow common core," "do common core," "align with common core," etc. Sometimes, people have heard just a little about Common Core State Standards and are curious to hear more. More often than that, however,...
26September, 2014
Taking Risks and Being Untraditional
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How does a teacher become untraditional in a system that has remained unchanged for the past sixty years?
12May, 2014
Socialization: It's a Matter of Quantity vs. Quality
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We receive many questions from parents regarding the number of opportunities for socialization when a student is in enrolled in a blended learning program such as Method Schools. As a mother of a child enrolled in blended learning programs throughout her educational career and as an experienced...
