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Who is the head of school?
Steve Coleman
100
How many divisions are there?
4 DIV: 1, 2, 3, & 4
100
What day do divisions 1 and 2 leave for the camping trip?
September 3rd.
100
The school’s goals should apply to all students, while the means to these goals will vary as those students themselves vary. School practice should be tailor-made to meet the needs of every group or class of students.
Goals apply to all students
100
What year was peak founded?
2012
200
Which STAFF member has been involved in Peak the longest?
Morgan Moore
200
What are the 2 core classes?
STEM and Humanities
200
What is the largest mountain in the camping area?
Mount Massive
200
Teaching and learning should be personalized to the maximum feasible extent. Efforts should be directed toward a goal that no teacher have direct responsibility for more than 80 students in the high school and middle school and no more than 20 in the elementary school. To capitalize on this personalization, decisions about the details of the course of study, the use of students’ and teachers’ time and the choice of teaching materials and specific pedagogies must be unreservedly placed in the hands of the principal and staff.
Personalization
200
Is everybody at Peak required to have a computer?
Yes
300
Which teacher teaches the most classes?
Laura, Moni, or Liz
300
What is a DMO?
The Division Mastery Objectives (DMO’s)are the steps that students must take to reach mastery of the overall objectives and graduate from Peak.
300
What is the purpose of the camping trip?
Getting to meet new people and community-building.
300
The governing practical metaphor of the school should be “__________”, rather than the more familiar metaphor of “teacher as deliverer of instructional services.” Accordingly, a prominent pedagogy will be coaching students to learn how to learn and thus to teach themselves.
Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach
300
How many students are currently attending peak?
52
400
Who are the new TEACHERS this year?
Jessica, Vicky, Erin, Andrea, Anto and Mario.
400
What is a basecamp? What do we use it for?
A basecamp is an advisory group. Base Camps meet daily for a short time at the beginning and end of the school day for daily announcements and check-ins.
400
Where will we be going on the camping trip?
Turquoise Lake by Leadville
400
The tone of the school should explicitly and self-consciously stress values of unanxious expectation, of trust, and of decency (fairness, generosity, and tolerance). Incentives appropriate to the school’s particular students and teachers should be emphasized. Families should be key collaborators and vital members of the school community.
A tone of decency and trust
400
What is the question that we ask everyone who applies to Peak?
"If you were a fruit, what type of fruit would you be and why?"
500
Name all of the teachers and their subjects.
LAURA and Liz: stem and math JESSICA: chinese JEFFERY and KATHLEEN: humanities MONI: humanities and spanish Mario, Erin, and Vicky: math Anto: Spanish Andrea: Art
500
What is forum? What do we use it for?
A meeting that occurs weekly in the upper and lower schools to discuss and make decisions regarding many areas of school life. We have an all school meeting once a month.
500
What CAMPGROUND will we be staying at?
Printer Boy
500
The school should demonstrate non-discriminatory and inclusive policies, practices, and pedagogies. It should model democratic practices that involve all who are directly affected by the school. The school should honor diversity and build on the strength of its communities, deliberately and explicitly challenging all forms of inequity.
Democracy and equity
500
What is our dress code?
- Stick with jeans or slacks . . . no sweatpants, please. - Tank tops should have substantial straps and provide ample coverage. - Keep shorts fingertip length or longer; skirts should be 2” above the knee or longer.