Proposal Part 1 - Mission Statement

School Without Walls proposes a multi-year instructional design, development and evaluation program that fully integrates the wide array of learning and subject components within the TW3K learning environment.

MISSION STATEMENT

The School Without Walls robotics program has, as its mission, the following goals:

1. The design of a comprehensive, interactive learning environment that harnesses the energy and innate desire to learn on the part of students and engages them with novel and experiential activities that result in real-life knowledge and skills; that has, at each step, evaluations of both student performance and the program itself.
2. The provision for students and mentors of a group structure, i.e. team, class, work group, that creates and sustains an ethical culture of responsibility and accountability.
3. The design of an environment that promotes planning and time management as life-long means of organizing and pursuing activities that are success oriented.
4. The development of a program that teaches students (and mentors) to realize steps needed to succeed in most endeavors of his/her life, i.e. scholastic improvement, preparation for higher education, career development.
5. The purposeful design of a program that focuses on the acquisition of critical thinking skills.
6. The provision of an environment where scholastic achievement is deemed important to personal success and for which student involvement yields academic credits.
7. The provision of a learning environment that promotes cross-pollination of learning as in exposing those who are interested in math science, engineering and technology with meaningful learning experiences with language, multi-media and communications. By the same token, a learning environment that exposes those who are already interested in language, multi-media and communications with meaningful experiences in math, science, engineering and technology.
8. The design and implementation of a program that recognizes the importance of “community”, social responsibility and service to the community.
9. The provision of a program that ensures team members learn how to become mentors themselves, such as supporting each other, the FLL Robotics Team at the School Without Walls Foundation Academy and other youth organizations.
10. The implementation of a program team that will learn how support and sustain itself from year to year.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller