Welcome to The School of One @ Bard

We are located inside of Bard High School along with the So1 Main Office. 

LEARNING PLATFORMS

Students who can read and write well will be successful in any career. The staff encourages students to explore the areas they are interested in learning about. We would like to make learning interesting again! The teacher has the standard high school curriculum and over 60 electives, including classes like Mythology, Veterinary Science, and Philosophy. The teacher has projects in many of the high school subjects but is willing to work with students to create a new project to pique student interests.

Edmentum

Students can log on from their Clever account using their CMSD usernames and password. Families, you can use this log on information to see where your student’s grades are in any class at any time. Students will complete at least 3 lessons/quizzes per day (15+ per week). Students are required to maintain a notebook in which they identify main concepts, vocabulary, formulas and other helpful items from the text they are reading in each lesson. Those notes then can and should be used when taking assessments for a given unit/course. They will also be very helpful when students are preparing for the OST or ACT/SAT exams.

Achieve 3000

Achieve3000.com is the second platform we use to boost students' reading levels. Most students gain at least 2 reading levels each year.  Students are expected to read 2-3 articles per day (10-15 per week) and complete all parts of the 5-step literacy activities. Additionally, students are required to use a suggested graphic organizer to help them identify 3 supporting ideas/facts from a given article that guide them in establishing/identifying the main idea of that article.

IXL

Many students and families are very knowledgeable about this website. This is the third one some students use. It will assess each student and then give a prescription for what they can do to gain the needed math skills. In turn, this makes their math classes easier, shows us exactly where they need to prep for a test like the OST or the ACT. Students should go on here for about 10 minutes daily and work on the next skill on their list.

Other and/or Offline:

Not all classwork needs to be completed via those learning platforms. In addition to those three, we also do offline projects.

• Personalized Projects- Given to students upon request or per their interests or future career goals. Topics range between all subjects and, in the past have included topics like case studies on psychologically interesting people, research papers into the death of John F. Kennedy, analysis of governmental agencies, multimedia presentations on architecture, photography and Image Design as a career, entrepreneurship, purchasing a home and/or flipping a home, the interesting King Tutankhamun, and presentations on transforming one’s self via cosmetic means. Students have also completed job shadowing internships.
• Research Papers- Most students will write at least one four-page paper per school year in an area of interest and/or in preparation for a high stakes exam.
• High Stakes Test preparation - These tests include the Ohio State Tests (OST’s), ACT test and SAT.
• All students are expected to be proficient on these exams. Staff will work with each individual student or in small groups of students to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses to prepare a preparation plan for these exams.
• Students are expected to prepare for each exam and receive a grade of proficient or higher on each one. For one of the exams (ELA II) students may need to write multiple five-paragraph essays with a minimum of five quotes from at least two different texts.

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