Discipline
This expectation reflects a high level of discipline by requiring Riveroll students to take initiative and ownership of their learning process.
What is "Show agency"?
A Class of 2025 student noted that the Director’s interactive teaching style made reading and other activities exciting by encouraging this action, helping students come out of their shells.
What is participate?
A Class of 2025 student reflected that the Director’s high standards and genuine support made them feel this way, fostering gratitude for his guidance that prepared them for life beyond college.
What is secure, motivated, and prepared?
Riveroll students are held accountable for maintaining this item in an organized manner to support their academic responsibilities.
What is a binder?
If a Riveroll class has 25 students and the teacher expects each to give a 2-minute public speech, how many total minutes would it take for all students to present, assuming no breaks?
What is 50 minutes?
This is the first expectation listed by students for a Riveroll classroom.
What is "Show Respect"?
Riveroll teachers provide this to students to clarify their strengths and areas for improvement.
What is tons of feedback?
This acronym represents the essentials embodied by Riveroll students.
What is D.R.E.A.M.?
A former student from 1997 reminisced about this unique classroom project captured in a video montage.
What is the Egyptian living museum?
If a Riveroll student lists all 50 expectations in order and spends two and a half minutes explaining each, how many minutes would it take to complete the task?
What is 125 minutes?
Students are expected to use this specific style of writing neatly in a Riveroll classroom.
What is cursive writing?
Riveroll teachers model this repeatedly to help students visualize and achieve expectations.
What is the expected behavior, academic skill, or outcome?
This expectation encourages Riveroll students to go above and beyond in their work.
What is "Go OTT - Over the top with work"?
This specific activity, mentioned by a Class of 2025 student, helped make learning meaningful by connecting lessons to real life.
What is the living museum?
A Riveroll teacher expects students to be silent for the first 10 minutes of a 50-minute class. What fraction of the class time is dedicated to silence?
What is 1/5? or What is 20%?
This expectation involves students being silent during a specific part of the class period.
What is "Be silent for the First 10 minutes of class"?
Riveroll teachers use their understanding of this part of students' brains to tailor their teaching approach.
What are the frontal lobes?
This expectation emphasizes that Riveroll students should prioritize learning over this.
What is a grade?
List three academic skills essential to presenting a Living Museum.
What are reading, note taking, paraphrasing, data analysis, graphic design, station design, script writing, synthesizing research, public speaking, computer literacy, video editing
If a Riveroll student is late to class 3 times in a 180-day school year, what percentage of the school year were they late, rounded to the nearest whole percent?
What is 2%? Or Decimal Form .02 or fraction 2/100, 1/50th
This disciplined practice, noted in the expectations, requires students to redo their work until mastery is achieved, reflecting a commitment to rigorous self-improvement.
What is "Do work over again until you learn it"?
Riveroll students are held accountable for pursuing this in their reading efforts, rather than focusing solely on grades.
What is knowledge?
A Class of 2025 student described the Director’s classroom as exciting because lessons felt this way, tailored to their mindset and emotions.
Answer: What is meaningful and personal?
This expectation requires Riveroll students to take responsibility for submitting assignments on schedule.
What is "honor due dates?"
Or what is "Turn in work on time?"
A former student from 1997 reflects on a video montage made 28 years ago in 2025. If the student was 14 years old in 1997, how old are they in 2025?
What is 42 years old?