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Click the following link to see what we are about! http://www.eastproject.org
The EAST (Environmental and Spatial
Technology) Initiative is the result of strong relationships between
business, government, and education. These relationships provide awareness
and access to necessary and relevant resources normally not available to
educators. The underlying philosophy for these partnerships is the
educational model that is EAST.
The 2012 EAST Conference Team
Mary Ann Gadberry, Jaelyn Delph, Kelsie Ray, Jessica
Martuzas, Dustin Denham, Gunnar Bartlett, Garett Lenzen, and Darrin Jackson
The 2012 EAST Student Ambassador
Nick Allred
To view a list of
our 2011-2012 projects click here
EAST Philosophy is based on the following educational
principles:
- All students have value and deserve the opportunity to
demonstrate their value to their school and community.
- Educational experiences must be relevant, challenging,
purposeful, and Student Centered.
- The physical educational environment must include state
of the art, real-world tools and reflect a work-like setting.
- Educators should serve as resource guides, managers,
and learner facilitators.
- Learning should be self-directed as much as possible
and oriented towards real-world projects that engage students in
independent and interdependent roles.
- High expectations must be individually established for
all students and must drive their efforts to achieve their potential.
Based on these principles, the EAST model has been recognized nationally as
an innovative, relevant, and successful approach to education. EAST students
are experiencing an individualized self-directed, service-oriented
project-based curriculum that is providing value to local schools and
communities.
The EAST Initiative is helping educators recognize, create, and maintain a
learning environment, which requires students to take the initiative in
creating project solutions that produce measurable and tangible results.
Students are exposed to strategies that help them move from the traditional
self-centered approaches of learning into a more realistic (and more
relevant) interdependent environment that stress understanding,
collaboration, and team approaches to problem resolution.
Through an extensive professional development process, EAST teachers
(facilitators) develop the capacity to stay focused on the intellectual
development of their students and learn to evaluate student progress on
actual performance in creative and problem solving areas. Teachers provide
students with opportunities to experiment while using relevant tools. They
allow students to make and profit from mistakes, which fosters the students'
ability to become self-reliant problem-solvers.
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