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Hi, I'm Abner. I'm a first year student at a school called The Met. At my school, we learn starting from what we are interested in. The Met teaches you the real world. Oh I know social studies, I know that, but you don't know how to explore, you don't know how to go out and do stuff for yourself.
- Met Student (Met Video, The Learning Cycle)
"I started out my first year here as a person whose talkativeness sometimes got me in trouble. By the end of the year, I saw that my talent for words could help me personally but also advance causes I believe in. My LTI gave me lots of chances to practice presenting in public. I had to describe to my team the results of the teen survey I'd conducted. [Then] I presented at a meeting in Washington about incorporating community service into school. Recently I attended an open conference on AIDS and other issues. I decided to step up to the microphone."
- Nadia |
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The Met is no ordinary school.
"At first a school with the motto "one student at a time" and where personalization runs deep seems an unlikely place to push students, again and again, outside their comfort zone. Yet The Met School does precisely that. Day after day, the school challenges its 336 students to attempt the untried or unknown - academically, personally, and socially - and wrest from those experiences the learning and growth that come with such stretching.
Neither vocational nor college prep, The Met's program centers on workplace internships and independent projects tailored to each student's interests."
To find out how they do this click here to the what kids can do site http://www.whatkidscando.org/portfoliosmallschools/MET/Metintro.html
Contact:
Jill Olsen- Crowley
jolsen-crowley@metcentre.org
www.metcentre.org
0011 401 752 2600 |
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