Digital Badges
K-8 John Dewey Institute students will earn and be awarded digital badges. Students may also document, reflect and provide evidence of their curricular and non-curricular intercultural learning assignments or activities. Students earn badges by completing challenges. The required work to complete each challenge is called a task, examples are: submitting documents, links to websites or media, and passing quizzes. This new educational system is on the cutting-edge of education innovation and will be designed to accommodate the special needs of our students on the autism spectrum. There will be no certificates of participation. Instead, all students will earn a high school diploma with possible opportunities to earn college credits in our concurrent enrollment classes.
Innovation for Students on the Autism Spectrum
One of the greatest problems facing our education system today is how to serve 1/59 of our population who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders as well as other cognitive and developmental disabilities. John Dewey Institute K-14 will provide solutions to this problem and deploy a caring, kind, and non-discriminatory learning environment for all students, parents, staff, and community stakeholders.
