Chrysalis School

You Can Learn Anything

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You can Learn Anything PosterResearch: The Khan Academy recently published a video entitled “You Can Learn Anything,” which emphasizes a very positive message about learning. It contradicts the common perception that intelligence is “fixed” or that people are “born smart,” and instead relays a message that we are born to learn. Failure is part of our growth and an important part of the learning process at any age or stage.

Practice: We often receive students from other schools who believe they are “bad” at a particular subject because they never got their questions answered, weren’t able to master a concept “in time,” or failed to see the relevance in their assignments. By giving them the support they need to experience success we see students develop the confidence they need to persist, grow, and learn whatever they seek.

Self-Awareness

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Brain PictureResearch: In his new book, entitled How We Learn, Benedict Carey claims that self-awareness is key to effective learning. He argues against traditional notions of how we learn (long hours in quiet isolation with a textbook) and promotes “tactical schooling,” which incorporates new knowledge about memory and the brain. When students learn how to learn, the task becomes less stressful and gives them an edge in making choices about their academic pursuits.

Practice: One of the benefits of working so closely with our students is that we can continually examine what works and what doesn’t to develop such self-awareness. Our teachers are constantly experimenting with new learning tactics and strategies to help students get to know themselves as learners and identify their true academic capacity.

Meaningful Partnership Between Teachers and Students

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20140429_090828Research: A report from the American Psychological Association argues that positive student-teacher relationships promote engagement, influence classroom behavior, and ultimately raise academic achievement. They can be supported when teachers establish personal connections with students, maintain frequent communication, and offer guidance and praise.

Practice: Our personalized programs encourage meaningful partnerships between students and their teachers. Consulting teachers in particular play a special role at Chrysalis as the one person who sees the whole child. They steer a student’s program, maintain communication with their team of teachers, serve as your primary point of contact, and can get to know a student deeply over the years. This relationships allows them to know your child’s strengths, potential, and help them achieve their goals. 

Every Child

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Research: The National Association for Gifted Children argues that general education programs are not meeting the needs of all students. In response, it promotes gifted education programs, highlighting some of the most important evidence-based methods and practices that can maximize student achievement. They include: pace, appropriate levels of challenge, the reduction of repetition, grouping students by ability level, identifying strategies that work for each child, augmenting the relevance of curriculum, responding to individual needs, and providing appropriate individualized support.

Practice: At Chrysalis we recognize the effectiveness of these techniques not only for gifted children, but for all children. Our individualized approach allows all of our students to benefit from these practices to work toward their own personalized goals. We provide a gifted education for every child.

Let Your Children Take Risks

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Picture 5 dangerous thing you should let your kids do

Research: In his Ted Talk entitled “5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Child Do,” Gever Tulley challenges us to reconsider allowing children to take risks that have been virtually eliminated by modern society. He argues that learning to play with fire, use a pocketknife, or take apart an appliance offers valuable learning opportunities and encourages children to develop their sense of self, their perspective on the world around them, and de-mystify daunting tasks.

Practice: We certainly won’t be throwing spears or playing with fire at school this year, but summertime offers a great window of opportunity to allow kids to stretch their zone of comfort by offering new experiences. As parents we can encourage them to take measured risk by allowing them time to explore and placing such opportunities within their reach.

 

Our Campuses

Chrysalis High School and Middle School
15900 Woodinville-Redmond Rd NE
Woodinville, WA p: (425) 481-2228

Chrysalis Elementary Campus
17005 140th Ave NE
Woodinville, WA p: (425) 481-2228

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