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Exhibition Week!

This week, we started with some Core Skills encouragement for the Eagles. They get double points for finishing Lexia units or No Red Ink topics! They were…

We made butter!

This week for quest, the Eagles got to go back in time and make butter! They had a lot of fun working in groups and taking turns shaking the jar to make…

Why aren't you helping us clean??

The Eagles have noticed that, during lunch, people were not cleaning and waiting for others to clean to go to free time. They were very frustrated and made an…

Planning for Exhibition!

This is where the community will come together to see what they’ve learned. Each session there will be a different exhibition, so that by the end of the year…

"You can trust me!"

At Active Leadership Academy, we rely on each other for information or feedback about whether we are on or off-course. We are all on our own Hero’s Journey…

We never give up!

We started out the week with the Iowa testing! Twice a year, Active Leadership Academy takes the Iowa standardized test. While it’s not a principal measure of…

Roses are red, Violets are blue...

Each session, we will have a Writers’ Workshop. In Writers’ Workshop, the Eagles partake in a genre—in this session that genre is poetry—and take their…

"We need to work together!"

This is when the filming process begins. The best practices include:

Exhibition Day!

The Eagles expressed to one another how anxious they felt about the exhibition and some even asked the returning Eagles advice on how to help with it.They set…