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“The Rowland Foundation Fellowship has allowed us the opportunity to pursue a passion in the making for 6 years. We have been formulating this plan for implementing a dynamic education in an alternative setting, yet did not have the time or resources to pursue this dream. This Fellowship has provided these resources. We are very proud to be among this group of professionals and eternally grateful for this opportunity.”
The focus of our project is to expand upon and operationalize a new alternative education program, the Learning Annex. We are working to establish an environment that can support and educate students with a variety of individual needs in a dynamic way with local resources. We plan to promote a structured, sustainable, evidence/outcome based program that would not only address academic needs, but also interpersonal and community-based needs. Cultivating life long learners, involved community members, and self-reliant individuals is our vision. We have three goals for this Fellowship: to audit the current program, to research existing programs and current theory, and to create and implement a structured program.
As a result of much of the research and data collected for development of the alternative program at FHUHS, many new initiatives at the main campus have begun. Specifically, this year FHUHS is piloting a grade 3-12 (plus GED) web-based curricula called Odysseyware. Our hope is that this curricula will allow for greater opportunities for students on and off-site, and will help to alleviate obstacles related to scheduling, long-term absences, and non-traditional programming. This summer FHUHS will also be launching a district-wide summer transition program titled High School Prep. The development of this program has been a district-wide collaborative effort to better support students as they enter high school. These initiatives share with the Learning Annex effort the goal of improving and expanding opportunities for our students and our rural community as a whole.
