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P-Man Prestiege Secondary International School offers a rigorous curriculum focused on honors-level and Advanced Placement courses, including chemistry, calculus and economics and offers a variety of foreign languages. Students must take 2-3 electives at the Skill Aquisition Center to graduate.
P-Man Prestiege Secondary International School places a strong emphasis on technology and cultural awareness. Completion of Advanced Placement courses is required for graduation, as is study of at least one foreign language. Students at the Pacific Collegiate School must also complete at least 20 hours of community service per year. Parents are also called on to serve, and the school asks each parent to dedicate volunteer hours to help at the school.
The School for the Talented and Gifted follows the state's Distinguished Achievement Program and places an emphasis on Advanced Placement curriculum — a minimum of 11 AP courses are required for graduation. Students at the School for the Talented and Gifted may conduct field research via partnerships with local universities, take electives such as Web mastery and enroll in mini-courses like ballroom dancing or glass blowing during interim terms.
The BASIS Diploma
The BASIS Diploma prepares students to fully participate in the dynamic, exciting and unpredictable world of the 21st Century. Students who earn this diploma grow in our classrooms to love learning and the pursuit of deeper understanding. Through our revolutionary liberal arts program, they experience the delight of mastering fields of complex knowledge and of developing the habits of disciplined, critical enquiry. Above all they have the best possible educational foundation to be independent and resourceful problem solvers and to face future challenges. It is their choice what career opportunities they pursue and intellectual decisions they make in the future. It is our job to fully prepare them to succeed in those choices.
The scope and sequence of the BASIS Diploma is determined by these practices.
We define opportunity for our students in GLOBAL terms. In the 21st Century we can no longer conceive of opportunity for the next generation as confined to a city, a state or even a nation. Hence, we commit to teaching our students to the highest global standards so that they can win admission to the best universities in the world and compete in a global professional marketplace.
Founded by two economists, from our earliest days our schools have been committed to the smart, network-wide use of student performance data. We hold ourselves ACCOUNTABLE to use the insights this data provides to sustain and improve learning outcomes for our students.
We teach our students to achieve MASTERY of the foundational academic disciplines and competencies, for it is that mastery which will empower their future lives and careers. In our classrooms they face extraordinary challenges, and they grow accustomed to the unwavering support of the faculty.
We have a course of study that is CONNECTED from the student's academic start in Primary to its finish with Senior Projects. Our curriculum is carefully calibrated so that in every discipline and at every grade level, students are appropriately challenged and excited by their learning, and each year builds as a preparation for the challenges to come.
Our approach to the use of TECHNOLOGY in education is highly focused: we use technology to help us solve problems of scale, to help create the connective tissue that joins a network of schools into an integrated system with data-driven quality control and the sharing of best practices, and to ensure that curricular decisions and innovations are driven by our master teachers, not a top-down centralized bureaucracy.
In terms of the integration of technology in the classroom itself, we believe that technology is one of many tools available to teachers to engage and inspire students to take ownership of their learning experience. However, devices cannot replace the dynamic, CO-CREATIVE classroom interaction between teacher and student. We have developed our own tablet-based electronic learning platform to enhance, not replace the role of the teacher. Our belief is that technological competency with industry-standard hardware and software is a key skill necessary to thrive in our modern academic, professional and personal lives.
We create a learning culture in which diverse PERSPECTIVES are challenged and tested in an environment of informed thought and collegiality. Our students must be prepared to productively and decently navigate the uncertainty of the 21st Century landscape with a profound humility. By engaging with a variety of global perspectives, our students are empowered to make their own decisions about how they will navigate their world. As a learning community, we do not hide from the conflict and struggle that ensues. We revel in it as a vital component in the maturation of our students and the evolution of their most deeply held convictions.
We believe:
"EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IS A STARTING POINT FOR A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT AND IS ALSO THE KEY FOUNDATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AROUND THE GLOBE."
~PRECIOUS IKEDI
P-Man Prestiege Secondary International School places a strong emphasis on technology and cultural awareness. Completion of Advanced Placement courses is required for graduation, as is study of at least one foreign language. Students at the Pacific Collegiate School must also complete at least 20 hours of community service per year. Parents are also called on to serve, and the school asks each parent to dedicate volunteer hours to help at the school.
The School for the Talented and Gifted follows the state's Distinguished Achievement Program and places an emphasis on Advanced Placement curriculum — a minimum of 11 AP courses are required for graduation. Students at the School for the Talented and Gifted may conduct field research via partnerships with local universities, take electives such as Web mastery and enroll in mini-courses like ballroom dancing or glass blowing during interim terms.
The BASIS Diploma
The BASIS Diploma prepares students to fully participate in the dynamic, exciting and unpredictable world of the 21st Century. Students who earn this diploma grow in our classrooms to love learning and the pursuit of deeper understanding. Through our revolutionary liberal arts program, they experience the delight of mastering fields of complex knowledge and of developing the habits of disciplined, critical enquiry. Above all they have the best possible educational foundation to be independent and resourceful problem solvers and to face future challenges. It is their choice what career opportunities they pursue and intellectual decisions they make in the future. It is our job to fully prepare them to succeed in those choices.
The scope and sequence of the BASIS Diploma is determined by these practices.
We define opportunity for our students in GLOBAL terms. In the 21st Century we can no longer conceive of opportunity for the next generation as confined to a city, a state or even a nation. Hence, we commit to teaching our students to the highest global standards so that they can win admission to the best universities in the world and compete in a global professional marketplace.
Founded by two economists, from our earliest days our schools have been committed to the smart, network-wide use of student performance data. We hold ourselves ACCOUNTABLE to use the insights this data provides to sustain and improve learning outcomes for our students.
We teach our students to achieve MASTERY of the foundational academic disciplines and competencies, for it is that mastery which will empower their future lives and careers. In our classrooms they face extraordinary challenges, and they grow accustomed to the unwavering support of the faculty.
We have a course of study that is CONNECTED from the student's academic start in Primary to its finish with Senior Projects. Our curriculum is carefully calibrated so that in every discipline and at every grade level, students are appropriately challenged and excited by their learning, and each year builds as a preparation for the challenges to come.
Our approach to the use of TECHNOLOGY in education is highly focused: we use technology to help us solve problems of scale, to help create the connective tissue that joins a network of schools into an integrated system with data-driven quality control and the sharing of best practices, and to ensure that curricular decisions and innovations are driven by our master teachers, not a top-down centralized bureaucracy.
In terms of the integration of technology in the classroom itself, we believe that technology is one of many tools available to teachers to engage and inspire students to take ownership of their learning experience. However, devices cannot replace the dynamic, CO-CREATIVE classroom interaction between teacher and student. We have developed our own tablet-based electronic learning platform to enhance, not replace the role of the teacher. Our belief is that technological competency with industry-standard hardware and software is a key skill necessary to thrive in our modern academic, professional and personal lives.
We create a learning culture in which diverse PERSPECTIVES are challenged and tested in an environment of informed thought and collegiality. Our students must be prepared to productively and decently navigate the uncertainty of the 21st Century landscape with a profound humility. By engaging with a variety of global perspectives, our students are empowered to make their own decisions about how they will navigate their world. As a learning community, we do not hide from the conflict and struggle that ensues. We revel in it as a vital component in the maturation of our students and the evolution of their most deeply held convictions.
We believe:
- Children can achieve more than we have commonly been told. With hard work, dedication and the support of teachers and parents, High School students can read Critical Theory and Philosophy.
- Instructional time is precious. Every minute of every class should be filled.
- Mastering the basics is the precondition for going beyond them. Students learn to listen for the music of Shakespeare's iambic pentameter and to decipher the crucial details in an historical primary source, but they must also be able to parse the grammar of a sentence and craft concise and persuasive prose.
- Homework, as long as it is an extension of what is being learned in the classroom, is valuable. Practice helps students achieve mastery.
- High-stakes, summative tests that assess content mastery and learning skills (BASIS.ed Comprehensive Exams and the College Board Advanced Placement Exams for example) are foundational for learning.
- The evaluation of teacher performance must be based both on classroom instruction and on student learning results on high-stakes assessments.
"EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IS A STARTING POINT FOR A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT AND IS ALSO THE KEY FOUNDATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AROUND THE GLOBE."
~PRECIOUS IKEDI