This blog is created by leaders and stakeholders of the North Rowan High School Community where we nurture and encourage students to cultivate their passions and gifts for academics, careers, and life. North Rowan High School is a 9 - 12 school in Spencer, NC. Serving a diverse student body, our school is one of four schools in the North Rowan Community. Our community, teachers, and parents know that the North Rowan Community is unique and they value the benefit our schools provide to students.
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About NRHS – A School of Educational Innovation
The educators of North Rowan High School, supported by the Rowan-Salisbury System, recognize that all students have unique gifts and intelligences which are revealed as a passion that is personally engaging and fulfilling. We recognize that these intelligences are not all currently supported and nurtured by traditional educational systems. Our students need skills such as communication, collaboration, and creative and critical thinking to discover success in their life after high school graduation. We believe that challenge based learning (CBL) offers a distinctly different approach to connect core content with these skills.
The North Community Schools are a one-to-one environment where teachers and students are empowered by Apple technology and a District Strategic Plan that promotes problem based learning, blended learning, and personalized instruction. Leveraging this environment, we believe CBL allows student to grow and apply learning in an area that is connected to their passions.
Emerging from community collaboration and planning, the True North initiative seeks to support nurture and cultivate students’ gifts and talents for academics, careers, and life. In this way, students develop their personal compass which has its own True North. This purpose will be accomplished through school design that engages students in challenge based learning experiences and that leverages opportunities both at school and across our community.
We have engaged partners to walk alongside us as our educators continue to design this new approach to education. Those partners make it possible for us to access resources, challenge our thinking, and dream on a larger scale for the greatest benefit to students. In the outset of this multiyear journey, the educators of the North Community seek to prototype new school design, instructional practices, and professional learning to move towards the True North vision.
The educators of North Rowan High School, supported by the Rowan-Salisbury System, recognize that all students have unique gifts and intelligences which are revealed as a passion that is personally engaging and fulfilling. We recognize that these intelligences are not all currently supported and nurtured by traditional educational systems. Our students need skills such as communication, collaboration, and creative and critical thinking to discover success in their life after high school graduation. We believe that challenge based learning (CBL) offers a distinctly different approach to connect core content with these skills.
The North Community Schools are a one-to-one environment where teachers and students are empowered by Apple technology and a District Strategic Plan that promotes problem based learning, blended learning, and personalized instruction. Leveraging this environment, we believe CBL allows student to grow and apply learning in an area that is connected to their passions.
Emerging from community collaboration and planning, the True North initiative seeks to support nurture and cultivate students’ gifts and talents for academics, careers, and life. In this way, students develop their personal compass which has its own True North. This purpose will be accomplished through school design that engages students in challenge based learning experiences and that leverages opportunities both at school and across our community.
We have engaged partners to walk alongside us as our educators continue to design this new approach to education. Those partners make it possible for us to access resources, challenge our thinking, and dream on a larger scale for the greatest benefit to students. In the outset of this multiyear journey, the educators of the North Community seek to prototype new school design, instructional practices, and professional learning to move towards the True North vision.