{"id":4411,"date":"2015-02-17T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otacharter.org\/fifthgrade\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:28:13","slug":"sci-high-san-diego-stem-high-school-presentation-thursday-feb-19-630-in-7th-grade-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/2015\/02\/17\/sci-high-san-diego-stem-high-school-presentation-thursday-feb-19-630-in-7th-grade-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci High San Diego STEM High School Presentation, Thursday Feb 19, 6:30 in 7th Grade Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/firstgrade\/files\/2015\/02\/Sci-High-Tech-School.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2815 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/firstgrade\/files\/2015\/02\/Sci-High-Tech-School-255x300.gif\" alt=\"Sci High Tech School\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>OTA Parents, please join us Thursday night to learn more about a <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">new charter high school for San Diego<\/span><\/strong>. Bill Hixson, lead developer of the project-based STEM High School, will be there to tell you more about\u00a0his new school. Bill is a software entrepreneur who after selling his company &#8220;retired&#8221; into a second career in teaching. He focused on STEM (Science Technology Engineering &amp; Math) education and\u00a0worked on school turn-around teams in NYC, in addition to teaching on\u00a0the faculty of\u00a0Colombia Teachers College.<\/p>\n<p>We believe this school will be a good fit for OTA students, with a <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>strong faculty<\/strong><\/span> and a\u00a0curriculum focused\u00a0on <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>independent learning<\/strong><\/span> (the school will be incorporating Project Trees)\u00a0and <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">mathematical &amp;\u00a0scientific literacy<\/span><\/strong>. Internships will be a large part of the program starting in 11th grade, and its project-based, blended learning model will\u00a0integrate in-class and online learning activities within each\u00a0project.<\/p>\n<p>The projected\u00a0opening date for the new high school will be the 2016-2016 school year. All parents\u00a0are welcome but parents with students in grades 5th-8th are particularly encouraged to attend Thursday\u00a0to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTA Parents, please join us Thursday night to learn more about a new charter high school for San Diego. Bill Hixson, lead developer of the project-based STEM High School, will be there to tell you more about\u00a0his new school. Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/2015\/02\/17\/sci-high-san-diego-stem-high-school-presentation-thursday-feb-19-630-in-7th-grade-room\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyofteaching.lwn-stg.194-164-93-166.plesk.page\/fifthgrade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}