Yes. Our students will be working on the same curricular standards. The difference is how students are demonstrating the work.

The Summit Learning Platform is designed to support and complement face-to-face instruction. The platform contains student work in an organized way, provides two-way communication between the teacher and student about the work, and provides access to student progress and growth on content learning as well as cognitive skills. On the goals page, teachers can help students set short-term and long-term goals. The progress page allows for mentors to store notes about mentoring sessions and student progress on goals.

• A single digital repository for their work instead of multiple digital spaces
• A variety of resources to support content area learning
• Varied pace of learning within focus areas
• Real-time progress of where a learner is at which is utilized in goal setting and more
• A weekly goal setting page that is unique to the student which he/she uses with the support of their teachers
• A different avenue for formative feedback so students can take advantage of the notes and comments from his/her teacher to improve work

The Platform provides teachers with:

• The ability to access real-time data to support learning within the classroom, projects and focus areas. This data informs and adds to teacher planning to determine the format of instruction which may include but are not limited to:
  • Whole class lessons
  • Small group workshops
  • Conferencing
  • Small group lessons during project time
• The ability to look at grade level data to plan for and implement interventions as needed for learners who may require additional scaffolding
• A place to add progress and mentoring notes for clear communication with families and students
• Another way for teachers to collaborate and work with other teachers

These are skills based on research done at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning & Equity. The research yielded 36 interdisciplinary skills necessary for college and career readiness.

Absolutely! The platform readily enables teachers to incorporate, edit, and/or change out resources that he/she feels would be best to foster student learning on a concept.

Students in Summit Learning have a weekly time set aside to meet with their assigned mentor to discuss, reflect, and plan on developing the 16 Habits of Success. This time enables teachers to get to know their students development in these areas to better be able to foster growth academically, socially, and emotionally.

Schools who are participating in the program have commented that since they were a 1:1 school already (like RCS with its Chromebook program) that they have seen a reallocation of screen time as opposed to a drastic increase. Students are already accustomed to using their devices for Google docs, research, writing, digital resources like Khan Academy, IXL and other such functions.

"Holyoke Sees Early Success with Personalized Learning" - click here to read more

A collection of Summit School Case studies - click here to read more

One school put together a very informative "Summit Myth vs Fact" that can be found by clicking here.