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when you become a student at flextech Yukon for various reasons I came from a bigger school and I felt like I had no place there a trade was not a good year for me and I think I saw would have continued to be just as surround us if it wasn't for the fact that I came here community different strengths that we meet kids where they're at based on. an individual rustic is a 21st century school with campuses in Brighton Novi and Shepherd Michigan stack meaning start with each student family to create a more flexible schedule that works best for them and do a lot of our stuff is based on line so we can do it from places other than the school Frontier has their own computer and they can utilize our one-to-one technology with Google Classroom to interact with your teachers to complete their assignments and also check on their status within a class it's just a lot more technology-based which is sort of the way I feel like our closest emission work project-based learning school in this project based learning focus on the students as individuals within the project I always tell students I have an idea for a project but if you something different that would still accomplish learning goals I'm open to your idea to insert their creativity insert their ideas their passions their interests and their Master through projects rather than the big tester because that's not how the real world works the real world is about applying things that you've learned to do something bigger culinary arts program PS3 you need so what you do with all this vegetable well that's when the fun begins when you start talking about suits we start talking about dips and hors d'oeuvres and appetizers for the Spanish project we have Dania magazine we've learned what it's like to run a magazine in real life we ended up with five answers and now the magazine is available in a bunch of businesses around school where people come together they share tools they share ideas play three the three major shops the Woodshop the metal shop and the fiber studio also it's about doing things in the community Checkers for kids project for the hospital and Anxiety Relief room inside the school I'm saying and also engaging with the community which I didn't win win for all of us the physical manifestation of the idea what creates pride and what we do here what are the core pieces of flex taxes are advisory program teacher a smaller group of students to their whole High School career they help you choose your classes catch up on missing work and make a game plan for you can be successful there is a curriculum that we use called project wayfinder figure out what their passions are what their interests are and they're excited about it he had a senior he was really worried that he wasn't going to graduate on time but he was able to get the how come you two procedures he really doubled up on a lot of credits and thank you walk across the stage shaking his hand at the end was just like such a great moment I feel like they're ready ready to jump to the world at do whatever they want to do I love working here because Ice-T lives being changed honestly this year and the year before has been the best years of my life because it helps them to get back to who they really are and to develop those passions so it's really giving meaning to their learning it just sort of feels like home

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