NEAAAT, or Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies, is the subject of a new spotlight piece from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. The article highlights the school’s innovative approach to student learning as well as projects currently underway.
A public charter school located in Elizabeth City, NEAAAT educates more than 750 students in grades 5-12 within a STEM-focused curriculum. In recent years, the school’s curriculum and project-based learning approach have led to numerous recognitions and accolades. Last September, for instance, NEAAAT won a prestigious Yass Prize semi-finalist award valued at more than $200,000. NEAAAT also focuses on inculcating specific mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets in students. (Read our Q&A with NEAAAT teacher Jake Bryson or learn more about NEAAAT’s recognition from the Canopy Project.)
Here’s an excerpt from Hoover’s spotlight, sharing current innovations at NEAAAT:
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A new, custom-built app for mastery learning. This new app, being developed with focus group feedback, will feature a data dashboard on student outcomes, providing students and families with real-time feedback aligned to NEAAAT’s mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. NEAAAT is working on this innovative app in response to student and parent requests for real-time personalized feedback instead of a traditional reporting period.
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Systems alignment. NEAAAT is currently working to better align their curriculum and instructional supports to the Profile of a Graduate, ensuring a more coherent program of anytime, anywhere competency-based learning.
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Portrait of a Coach. Building off their Portrait of a Graduate, NEAAAT is also working to develop a Portrait of a Coach, better defining the skills and competencies that make education professionals successful in executing NEAAAT’s unique instructional model.
Read the full Hoover Institution spotlight piece. Congratulations, NEAAAT! We’re so proud of all of your accomplishments and innovative work with students.
NEAAAT is a Coalition member school.
Photo: Courtesy of NEAAAT.
