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AXL Academy engages students in a challenging program where all core subjects, as well as technology, fine arts, physical fitness and Spanish, are integrated into deep investigations of real-world issues. We call these Expeditions, and they connect classroom content to everyday life. With training from Expeditionary Learning™, AXL teachers design hands-on projects, real life problems, and frequent outside-the-classroom expeditions that make students active participants in their own education.
All of our curriculum begins with Colorado Content Standards, but we go beyond them to involve students actively and meaningfully in the larger community.
Teachers use a variety of evaluation tools — including Colorado-mandated tests, nationally standardized tests, authentic assessments of students’ knowledge and skills, and portfolios of students’ work over time — to monitor students’ progress toward world class standards of achievement. Performance data from these assessments drive AXL’s ongoing curriculum development, training for teachers, and individualized supports for students’ learning.
Students publicly demonstrate what they have learned and what they can do, in developmentally appropriate ways, in order to earn passage from to next grade level.
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