Longfellow Middle: Accelerated Learning
Principal
- Christine Miller
305 Louisiana Ave. Lorain, Ohio 44052
(440) 288-1002
Grades 6 through 8
Student Population:
School Hours: 8:50 am - 3:30 pm
Longfellow Accelerated Academy is a new accelerated learning program that challenges students to reach their greatest potential. A program of
Lorain City Schools, the Accelerated Academy utilizes the best personnel, teaching tools, techniques and resources from throughout the district. Its goal is to empower its students to
be highly successful, productive and valuable leaders of our community and beyond.
Goals
- Enrich and accelerate by taking into account the
needs of the individual child and their advanced
learning needs
- Provide opportunities that develop responsibility to
self and others
- Enhance the appreciation of lifelong learning
- Modification of the learning process through depth
and complexity of the learning environment
- Students demonstrate learning through multiple
products/projects
- Utilize cutting edge technological resources and
dynamic instructional models to increase student
interest and engagement
Classroom Experiences
- Independent Study
- Literature Circles
- Junior Great Books
- CoRT: Cognitive Reasoning and Thinking
- Mock Trial, Young Authors, Invention Convention
- Power of the Pen
- Project Lead the Way
- Physics field trips at Cedar Point, Mohican State Park
and Great Lakes Theatre
- Interdisciplinary studies, project based learning,
novel studies
A Successful Student
- Arrives on time and attends everyday
- Works well with others
- Enthusiastic about special projects
- Willing to use imagination
- Creatively inspired
- Seeks new challenges
- Lifelong learner
- Independent Worker
- Embraces the opportunity to undertake difficult tasks
Student Requirements
- Grades 6 - 8
- Students enrolled in Lorain City Schools are given
priority over students from other districts
- Students qualify to enter program based on
scores from OAT and testing results from a
nationally normed test
- Students qualified for gifted self-contained classes
must have gifted identification in two areas
Staffing
- Minimum 3 years teaching experience
- Masters Degree
- Ongoing Professional Development
- State funded gifted unit teachers must have Gifted
Intervention Specialist Endorsement
- Provide written education plans for identified gifted
students
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